Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDEveryone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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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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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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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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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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