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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
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
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
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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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
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
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue

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