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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
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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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity

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