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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Anyone Before Capable Doing Perfect Various Without
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
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
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
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
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
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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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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