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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
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
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
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
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak

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