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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
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 often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
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
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
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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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation

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