Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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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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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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