We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one but often our greed upsets this order and makes us run after so many things at once that through over-anxiety to obtain the trivial, we miss the most important.
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A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
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The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
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If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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