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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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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
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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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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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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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.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role

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