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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
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
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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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
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
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
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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