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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
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
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
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
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
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise

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