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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
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
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise

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