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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
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
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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
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
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth

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