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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
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
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various

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