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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
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 desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
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
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
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
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
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
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
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
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
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
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
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
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves

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