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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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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
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
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet

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