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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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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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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
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

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