We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

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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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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Defect Fault Taken
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Wish
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Make One Small
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

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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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Inspire Moderate Much Sometimes
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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More Near Wish
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Mean Nothing Sufficient
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Facade Pleasant Some Various
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
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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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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Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Most
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Both Compulsion Fortune Generous Part
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Whole Witness
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Even Glorious Number Splendor
We pardon to the extent that we love.

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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Pardon
The heart is forever making the head its fool.

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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Make
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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