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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
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 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
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
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
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
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who

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