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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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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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
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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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous

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