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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
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
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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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
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
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
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
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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