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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Love

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

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Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

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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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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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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Wisdom

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

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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.

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

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

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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

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

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

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More Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

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

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The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

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

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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

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Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

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The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

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

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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

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Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

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You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

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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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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

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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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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

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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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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

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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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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

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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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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

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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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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

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We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

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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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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

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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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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

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