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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
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
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
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
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser

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