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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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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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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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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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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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