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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
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
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
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
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
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

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