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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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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 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 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
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
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 would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make

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