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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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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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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
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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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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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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