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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
[ Praise ]
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
[ Work ]
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Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
[ Luck ]
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
[ Decency ]
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
[ Envy ]
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Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
[ Judgment and Judges ]
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Few people know how to be old.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Fortune and humor govern the world.
[ Humor ]
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
[ Funerals ]
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
[ Grace ]
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
[ Respectability ]
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Hope and fear are inseparable.
[ Hope ]
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How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
[ Secrets ]
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
[ Humility ]
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
[ Hypocrisy ]
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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
[ Company ]
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
[ Faults ]
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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
[ Passion ]
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In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
[ Jealousy ]
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
[ Gratitude ]
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
[ Promotion ]
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
[ Men ]
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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
[ Failure ]
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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
[ Cleverness ]
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
[ Wisdom ]
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
[ Wisdom ]
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
[ Envy ]
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
[ Love ]
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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
[ Wisdom ]
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Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
[ Jealousy ]
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
[ Jealousy ]
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Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
[ Selfishness ]
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
[ Advice ]
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Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
[ Moderation ]
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Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
[ Moderation ]
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
[ Death and Dying ]
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