There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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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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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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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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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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