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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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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
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
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
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
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No

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