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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
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
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret

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