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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
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
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

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