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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.

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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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
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
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
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
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick

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