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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
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
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
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
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think

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