QUOTES by François de La Rochefoucauld
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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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"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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"It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit."
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"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not."
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"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."
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"It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend."
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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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"It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever."
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"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
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"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength."
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"If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection."
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"If we had no faults of our own, we should not take half so much satisfaction in observing those of other people."
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"If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us."
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"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."
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"However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else."
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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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"How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?"
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"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?"
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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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"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."
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"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
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"Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites."
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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
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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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"Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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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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"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing."
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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
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"A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others."
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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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"We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation."
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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
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