QUOTES by François de La Rochefoucauld
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"The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune."
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"The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken."
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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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"The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them."
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"The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved."
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"The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second."
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"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."
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"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again."
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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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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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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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"Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone."
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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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"People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune."
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"People always complain about their memories, never about their minds."
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"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised."
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"Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us."
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"Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves."
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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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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while."
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"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."
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"Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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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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"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."
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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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"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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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."
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"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."
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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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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it."
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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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"Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love."
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"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."
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"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
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