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Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

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Men, Giving, Advice
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 93, 1678.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

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Taken, Faults, Method

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

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Jealousy, Pain, Cutting

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

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Love, Friendship, Business

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

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Love, Broken Heart, Judging

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

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Peace, Vain, Source

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

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Self, Advice, Profit
"Maximes Et Réflexions Morales".

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

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Love, Talking, Reason

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

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Perfection, Listening, Conversation

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

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Happiness, Joy, Taste

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

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Change, Men, Revolution

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.

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Appreciation, Appreciate, Quality

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

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Inspirational, Opportunity, Luck

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

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Justice, Diversity, Rewards

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

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Thinking, Mind, Politeness

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

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Leadership, Class, Knowing

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

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War, Men, Wish

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

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Vanity, People, Malice

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

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Skills, Knowing
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 245, 1678.

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

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People, Luck, Merit

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

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Knowing, Giving, Advice

Fortune and humor govern the world.

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World, Sense Of Humor, Fortune

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

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Happiness, Thinking, Unhappy

Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

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Opportunity, Known

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

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Ungrateful People, Long, People

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