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Only great men have great faults.

Only great men have great faults.

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Men, Faults, Great Men
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 190, 1678.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

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Inspirational, Trust, Being Yourself

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

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Hope, Journey, Men

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

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Sports, Psychology, Should

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

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Speech, Stopping, Eloquence

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

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Life, Relationship, Cynical

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

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Happiness, Happy, Heart

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

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Love, Romantic, I Miss You

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

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Clever, Silly, Men
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 269, 1678.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

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Inspirational, Integrity, Kind Deeds

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

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Envy, Quality, Noble

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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Motivational, Uplifting, Failure

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

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Philosophy, Philosophical, Weakness

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

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Greatness, Mind, Matter

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

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World, Jeering, Judgment

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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Love, Ignorance, Wells

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

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Debt, Pay, Loan

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

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Mean, People, Rose

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

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Mind, Body, Idleness

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

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Thinking, Vocabulary, Progress

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Wish, He Man

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

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Health, Mind, Body

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

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Clever, Good Luck, Men

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

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Relationship, Love Is, Order

In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And talk nonsense. When we get home we are conscious that we Have made fools of ourselves. Never go near these people.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Being Yourself, Home, People

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