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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
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
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
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
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
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
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
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
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

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