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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
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
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
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
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
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade

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