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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
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
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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
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
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
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue

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