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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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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
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
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without

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