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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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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
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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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
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 pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
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
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
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
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish

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