Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Great praise is heaped on prudence yet there is not the most insignificant event of which it can make us sure.
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
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