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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
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
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
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
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
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient

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