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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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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
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
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Envy Inspire Moderate Much Pride Sometimes
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success

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