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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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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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