Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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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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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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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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