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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness

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