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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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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

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