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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
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
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
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
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Compensate Example Give Inability Love Old People Set
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
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
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
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality

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