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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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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
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
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
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
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom

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