Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDMediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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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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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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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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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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