Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPhilosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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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 intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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