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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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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
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
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
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
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth

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