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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
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
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
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
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
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 would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
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
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think

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