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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise

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