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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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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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