As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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