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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 say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
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
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
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
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
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
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
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
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
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
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
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
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
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without

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