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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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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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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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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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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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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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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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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