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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser

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