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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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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
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
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
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit

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