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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
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
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
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
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
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
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
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
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
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
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us

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