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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those

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