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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
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
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
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
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
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem

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