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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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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
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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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
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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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
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
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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