Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes (241 quotes)

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„If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.“
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„What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.“
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„We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.“
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„It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.“
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„It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.“
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„Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.“
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„We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.“
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„That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.“
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„We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.“
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„Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.“
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„Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.“
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„Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.“
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„Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.“
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„It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.“
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„We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.“
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„Usually we praise only to be praised.“
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„Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.“
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„Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.“
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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.“
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„Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.“

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Author born: September 15, 1613
Author died: March 17, 1680
Nationality: French
Author Profession: Writer

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