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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
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
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
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
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
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
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
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
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well

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