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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
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
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
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
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness

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