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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
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
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
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
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser

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