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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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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
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
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power

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