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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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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
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
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
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
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
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
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often

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