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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
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
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
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
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
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
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
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
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge

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