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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
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
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
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
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
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
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
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
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
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
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
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

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