Tag: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld