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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
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
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
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
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
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
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
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
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

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