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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
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 would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue

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