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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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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun

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