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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
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
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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

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