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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
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
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
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
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
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small

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