As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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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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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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