Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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