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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
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
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
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
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding

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