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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set

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