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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those

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