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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
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
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
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

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