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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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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
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
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
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
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
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
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
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
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound

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