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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 of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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