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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
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
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish

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