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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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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 are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
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
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge

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