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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 promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
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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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually

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