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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
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
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
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
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
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
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World

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