QUOTES by François de La Rochefoucauld
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"There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not."
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"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
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"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
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"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."
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"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity."
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"We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire."
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"Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please."
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"Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example."
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"It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them"
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"The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice."
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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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"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."
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"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."
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"Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires."
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"There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does."
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"It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,"
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"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed."
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"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions."
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"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying."
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"Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example."
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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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