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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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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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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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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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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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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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