Tag: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld