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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion

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