People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
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It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
ability great
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
true ghosts love
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
candles absence wind passions great
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person
memory good person
We always like those who admire us we do not always like those whom we admire.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
wise lives folly
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
people
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
life wisdom people
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
change people
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
fortune worth people men
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
example people
people mind
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
fortune merit people
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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