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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 nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
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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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky

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