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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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