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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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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role

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