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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
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
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice

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