Friends Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

17 Friends quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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La Rochefoucauld’s aphorisms cut to the bone of human relations, and these seventeen pieces continue that tradition. Expect a blend of cynicism and truth about how we choose and keep friends.

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The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him…

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It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

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Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater…

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The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them…

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Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

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

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing

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

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Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly…

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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and…

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When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense…

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The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they…

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Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and…

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The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of…

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What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a…

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The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard…

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The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there…

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Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

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Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

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“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”

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Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves…

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