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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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 give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
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
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation

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