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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
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
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
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
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
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So

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