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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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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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