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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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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
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 word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
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 only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Advice Anyone Benevolent Give Sell Share
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
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
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Able Consequence Energy Friendship Hatred Judge Love Rese
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing

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