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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
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
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
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
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
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
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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All Ourselves Speak Talk

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