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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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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
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
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
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
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True

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