No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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