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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
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
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

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