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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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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
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
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
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
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
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
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
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
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
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness

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