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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
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
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 give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
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
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion

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