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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
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
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
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
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
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

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