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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
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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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
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 Great Make One Small
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some

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