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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
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
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
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
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade

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