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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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
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
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
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
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound

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