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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
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
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
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
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 are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong

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