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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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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
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
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
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success

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