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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice

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