Tag: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We always get bored with those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld