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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

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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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
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

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