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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
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
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
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
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 would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize

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