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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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
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
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
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
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
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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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise

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