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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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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
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 refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure

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