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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
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
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
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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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
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
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
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
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
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One

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