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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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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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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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