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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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 more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
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
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
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
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse

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