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I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.

~Francisco Goya

Topics: Art Demonstrate Difficult Facts Follow Give Great Impediment Making No Rules Obligation Oppression Painting Path Profess Proof Rules Same Study Very Who Will Young

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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Advice Bad Bad Example Example Give Good Good Advice Inability Love Old Old People People Set Them

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Advice Bad Console Examples Fond Give Giving Good Good Advice Inability Men Old Old Men Themselves

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Advice Away Give Men Nothing

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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Advice Anyone Badly Because Benevolent Buy Give Most Never Out Price Sell Shares Turn

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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Advice Cannot Give Profit We Cannot Wisdom

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Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Away Few Give Many Men Riches Them

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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Affection Comforted Easily Expressing Friends Give Misfortunes Occasion Our Those Us

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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Assistance Bearing Cutting Feel Give Jealousy Makes Pain Shame Them Us Vanity

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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Because Call Exercise Fond Generosity Give Giving More Most Only Part Than Thing Vanity

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