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François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

François de La Rochefoucauld

French Writerand philosopher

Nationality: French

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Type: Writer

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Birth: 1613-1680

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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

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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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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

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We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

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Few people know how to be old.

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.

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Usually we praise only to be praised.

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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

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When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

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True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

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How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.

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We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

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There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.

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We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.

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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

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It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.

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We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

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Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.

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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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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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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

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There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

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When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

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It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

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Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

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Hope and fear are inseparable.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

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Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

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Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

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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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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

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Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

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Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

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The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.

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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

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We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

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A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

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There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.

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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

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In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

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We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.

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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

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Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.

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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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Weak people cannot be sincere.

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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

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Taste may change, but inclination never.

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We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.

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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.

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

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The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

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