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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
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
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
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
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
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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 more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
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
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without

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