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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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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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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
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
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
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
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something

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