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Few know how to be old.

Few know how to be old.

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Age, Know How, Knows
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 423, 1678.

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

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People, Spirit, Calm

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

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Weakness, Faults, Incorrigible
Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.73

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

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Giving, Pleasure, Should

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

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Cheating, Men, Sometimes

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

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Men, Faithful, Mistress

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

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Men, Design, May

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

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Vices, Virtue, Interest

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

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Weakness, Vices, Virtue

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

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Support, Problem, Virtue

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

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Kindness, Compassion, Should

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

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Hero, Evil, Heroism

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

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Inspirational, Perfect, Would Be

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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Passion, Design, Soul

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

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Happiness, Inspiring, Failure

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

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Ideas, Mind, Flash

We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.

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Inspiration, Giving, Advice

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

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Gratitude, Disappointment, Giving

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

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Understanding, Faults, Common

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

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Men, People, Judging

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

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Guilt, Lucky, Innocence

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.

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Love, Pride, Two

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

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Pride, Ridiculous, Shows

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

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Prison, Crime, Incapable

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

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Self, Play, Tongue

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