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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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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
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
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
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
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
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
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness

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