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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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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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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
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small

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