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Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

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Broken, Care

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

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Clever, Fall, Men

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

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Deception, Deceiving, Intention

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

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Talking, Delight, Warning

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

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Gratitude, Desire, Virtue

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

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Flirting, Kind, Flirtation

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

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Flirting, Flirtation, Knows

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

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New Year, Philosophy, Failure

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

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Lying, Deceiving Others, Dishonesty

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

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Passion, Greed, Missing

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

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Age, Vices, Desert

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

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Thinking, Boredom, Bores

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

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Love, Love Is, Romance
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 259, 1678.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

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Song, Drinking, People

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

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Gratitude, Men, Secret

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

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Love, Two, Merit

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

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Hurt, Vanity, It Hurts

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

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Love, Self, Anorexia
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 2, 1678.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

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Love, Tire, Self Love

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

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Good Woman, Roles, Tire

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

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Vanity, Giving, Liberality

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

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Women, Handsome, Common

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

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Birthday, People, Giving

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

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Love, Fall, People
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 136, 1678.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

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First Love, Long, Cynical

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