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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise

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