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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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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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