Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur 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.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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