“One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.”
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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“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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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-love.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“Conceit causes more conversation than wit.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“Usually we praise only to be praised.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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“We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.”
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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