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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

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Guilt, Doe, Innocence

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

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Deceit, May

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

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Desire, Should, Wanted

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

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Spring, Passion, Heart

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

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People, Fallen, Heard
"Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims)". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld (Maxim 136), 1665-1678.

We forgive just so long as we love.

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Long, Forgiving
"Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard".

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

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Passion, Men, Wisest Man

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

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Boredom, Bored, Antidote

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

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Bored, Boring

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

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Heart, Numbers, Imagination

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

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Confidence, Self Esteem, Giving

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

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Hypocrisy, Quality, Ridiculous

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

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Vanity, People, Insufferable

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

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Honor, Weakness, Vices

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

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Imitation, Absurdity, Copies

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

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Fate, Men, Arrows

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

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Deception, Deceiving, Easy

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

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People, Faults, Merit

The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

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Giving, Advice, Return

We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.

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Men, Judging, Desire

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

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Heart, Imagination, Doe

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.

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Fall, Reflection, Evil

Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot.

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Overcoming, May, Littles

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

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Wise, Lying, Ridiculous

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

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Matter, Action, Brilliant

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