Sincerity is an openness of heart we find it in very few people what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
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We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
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It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
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