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François de La Rochefoucauld

Defects
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
5.0 · 54 votes · 161 reads
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Defects
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
4.9 · 26 votes · 189 reads
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Defects
Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
4.2 · 49 votes · 41 reads
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Defects
Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
3.6 · 53 votes · 19 reads
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Various
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
4.4 · 45 votes · 31 reads
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Various
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
4.3 · 49 votes · 29 reads
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Various
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
4.2 · 34 votes · 39 reads
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Nature
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
3.4 · 51 votes · 197 reads
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Feelings
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
3.3 · 39 votes · 149 reads
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Thought and Reason
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
3.2 · 38 votes · 20 reads
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Various
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.
4.8 · 55 votes · 54 reads
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Various
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.
3.9 · 25 votes · 182 reads
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Various
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
3.6 · 61 votes · 195 reads
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Time
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
4.2 · 50 votes · 43 reads
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Time
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
3.7 · 39 votes · 170 reads
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Time
Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
3.8 · 12 votes · 174 reads
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Various
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
4.1 · 34 votes · 192 reads
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Nature
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
4.9 · 29 votes · 161 reads
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Virtues
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
3.3 · 27 votes · 168 reads
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Various
Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
3.3 · 40 votes · 30 reads
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Various
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
4.5 · 33 votes · 188 reads
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Feelings
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
4.1 · 16 votes · 52 reads
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Thought and Reason
Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
3.8 · 26 votes · 92 reads
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Virtues
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
4.2 · 38 votes · 187 reads
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Feelings
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
4.5 · 20 votes · 121 reads
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Various
Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
4.6 · 20 votes · 79 reads
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Various
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
4.6 · 56 votes · 184 reads
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Feelings
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
3.8 · 51 votes · 198 reads
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Various
Taste may change, but inclination never.
4.5 · 28 votes · 163 reads
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Nature
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
3.6 · 23 votes · 187 reads
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Virtues
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
4.3 · 51 votes · 162 reads
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Society
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
3.7 · 5 votes · 91 reads
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Virtues
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
4.6 · 44 votes · 32 reads
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Virtues
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.
3.2 · 22 votes · 37 reads
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Virtues
The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
4.8 · 33 votes · 169 reads
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Science and Technology
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
3.9 · 37 votes · 35 reads
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Thought and Reason
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
4.1 · 52 votes · 56 reads
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Feelings
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
3.3 · 21 votes · 123 reads
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Various
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
3.7 · 50 votes · 34 reads
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Feelings
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
4.1 · 60 votes · 46 reads
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