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Usually we praise only to be praised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
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
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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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom

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