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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

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
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
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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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity

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