Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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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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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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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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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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