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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

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
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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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
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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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 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
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing

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