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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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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving 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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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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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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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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