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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
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

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