Tag: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld