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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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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
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
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
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
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Extent Love Pardon
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice

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