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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
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
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
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
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
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
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
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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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve

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