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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret

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