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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 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
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
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
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon

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