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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
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
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
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
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
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
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly

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