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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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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
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use

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