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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
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
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
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
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade

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