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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 defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
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
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
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
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
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
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality

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