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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
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
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick

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