Tag: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld