Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
- In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
- There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
- Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
- There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
- One forgives to the degree that one loves.
- There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
- Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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