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  ...{(1625), "Of Ceremonies and Respects"}]
454.--There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.
455.--However disposed the world may be to judge wrongly, it far oftener favours false merit than does justice to true.
456.--Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
457.--We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
458.-
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
459.--There are many remedies to cure love, yet none are infallible.
460.--It would be well for us if we knew all our passions make us do.
461.--Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
462.--The same pride which makes us blame faults from which we believe ourselves free causes us to despise the good qualities we have not.
463.--There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how superior...
 
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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