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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
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
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
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 all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
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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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness

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