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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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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
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
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
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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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
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
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
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
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient

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