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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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
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
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
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
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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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
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
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often

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