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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
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
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
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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