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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
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
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
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.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule

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