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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
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
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
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
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon

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