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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

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
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
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
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
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
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
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part

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