Tag: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld