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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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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
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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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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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue

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