Tag: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld