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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
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
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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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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