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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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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
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
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 often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
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
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
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
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn

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