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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

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
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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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
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
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
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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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
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.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power

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