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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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 confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
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 valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
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
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
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 promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
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
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
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity

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