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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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 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
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
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
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
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

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