Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDAll the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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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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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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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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