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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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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
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
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near 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
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.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound

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