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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
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
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
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
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue

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