Tag: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld