Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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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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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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