A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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