"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."

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"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."

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"The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice."

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"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."

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"As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish."

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"Few people know how to be old."

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

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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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"Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example."

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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 sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."

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"How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive."

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"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."

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"There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means."

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"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed."

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"We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

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"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only."

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"Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves."

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"Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves."

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"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."

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"It is not enough to succeed, others must fail."

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"Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred."

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"There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does."

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"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity."

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"Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others."

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"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."

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"It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,"

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"The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it."

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"We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone."

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"Only the great can afford to have great defects."

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"If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others."

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"It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity."

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"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers."

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"All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense."

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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."

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"We pardon to the extent that we love."

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"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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"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

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"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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"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."

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