As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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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