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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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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
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
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
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 say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People

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