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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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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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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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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
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
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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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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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth

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