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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
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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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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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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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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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
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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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
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
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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