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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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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
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
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without

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