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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
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
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
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
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
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
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
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often

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