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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
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
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
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
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
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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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
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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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity

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