Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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• The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
• It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.
• Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
• Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
• Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
• The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.
• It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular
• The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
• It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes…
• To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
• We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
• Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
• The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.....
• We pardon as long as we love.
• The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
• All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
• It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to…
• The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
• Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that…
• Hope and fear are inseparable.

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