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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
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
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
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
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
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
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
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
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word

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