François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

French author

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
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When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
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We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
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We never listen when we are eager to speak.
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We should not judge of a man’s merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
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Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
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What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own.
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A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.
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All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.
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In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
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If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
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One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
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Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person’s heart.
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Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
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There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
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It is a great ability to be able to conceal one’s ability.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore.
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire.
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