Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur 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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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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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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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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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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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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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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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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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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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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