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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
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 know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
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
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech

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