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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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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
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
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side

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