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• Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
• Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
  -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665...
• Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to set a bad example.
  -- La Rochefoucauld, "Maxim...
• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love. -- Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucald
• People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.
  -- Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucald...
• Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...