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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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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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