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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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