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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
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
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
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
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes

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