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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
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
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role

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