Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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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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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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It 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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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