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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
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
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 are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
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
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
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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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set

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