Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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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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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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