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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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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
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
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side

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