Best Francois de La Rochefoucauld Qoutes
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Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
Always Imagine
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Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
Appears
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.
Fashion
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Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.
Coquetry
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Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always…
Always Expects
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We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.
Benefits
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Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to…
Backbone
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To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Fortune
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However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.
Advantage
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Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
Consider
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It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
Favors
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Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to…
Feigned
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The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.
Full
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It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.
Ceased
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In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.
Always Goes
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Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
Agreeable
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Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully
Accidents
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Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.
Abase
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Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.
Beyond
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In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
Affair
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Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.
Dupes
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In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
Almost Always
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The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
Dependent
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Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
Body
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We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.
Acknowledge
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