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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
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
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
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
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
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
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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