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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
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
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
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
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
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
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity

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