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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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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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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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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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