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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
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
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
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
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
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
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
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

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