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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 promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
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
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
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
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
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
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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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
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

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