Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDMen give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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