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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
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
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
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
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
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
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble

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