Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes
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“All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.”
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“If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld#Relationship Quotes #Finding Peace Quotes #Elsewhere Quotes
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“There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”
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“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
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“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.”
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“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
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“Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.”
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“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
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“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”
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“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”
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“The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”
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“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
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“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
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“Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.”
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“As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.”
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“We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger....”
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“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
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“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”
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“What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.”
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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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“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
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“We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.”
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“The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.”
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“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
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“He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.”
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“We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.”
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“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.”
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“We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.”
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“Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.”
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“Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.”
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“Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.”
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“We always get bored with those whom we bore.”
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“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
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“A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.”
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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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“The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.”
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“True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.”
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“I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.”
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“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
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“Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.”
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“Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.”
-- Francois de La RochefoucauldSource : "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 375, 1678.
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“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
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“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”
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“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.”
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“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
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“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
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“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
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“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
-- Francois de La RochefoucauldSource : "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 70, 1678.
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“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.”
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“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”
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“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
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“Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.”
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“The only thing constant in life is change”
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“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.”
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“We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.”
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“Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.”
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“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.”
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“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
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“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”
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“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”
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“The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.”
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“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”
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“The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.”
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“Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.”
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“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
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“Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.”
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“A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.”
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“Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.”
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“No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.”
-- Francois de La RochefoucauldSource : "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 269, 1678.
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“A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.”
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“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.”
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“What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.”
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“A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.”
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“There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.”
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“There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.”
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“It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.”
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“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.”
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“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
-- Francois de La RochefoucauldSource : "Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.
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“How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?”
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“To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.”
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“Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.”
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“Taste may change, but inclination never.”
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“It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.”
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“One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.”
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“It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld#Positive Thinking Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Impossible Quotes
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“We always like those who admire us.”
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“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”
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“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”
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“When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.”
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“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”
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“The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.”
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“When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.”
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“We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.”
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“We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.”
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“There are heroes in evil as well as in good.”
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“We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.”
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“Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.”
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“People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”
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“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.”
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“Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.”
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