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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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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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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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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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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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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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