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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
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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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
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
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul 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
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
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret

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