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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
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
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
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
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
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
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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 are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves

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