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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 are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
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
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
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some

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