It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
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We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Our repentance is not so much regret for the evil we have done, as fear of its consequences to us.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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