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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

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
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
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
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
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety 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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
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
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use

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