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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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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
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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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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 seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak

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