Tag: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld