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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
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
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
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
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum

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