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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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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
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
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
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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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
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

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