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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
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
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
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
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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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
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse

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