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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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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
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
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
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
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
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well

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