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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 seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict

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