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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
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
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 word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth

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