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Almost Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for…
- To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
- Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence…
- Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot…
- In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
- All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.
- Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.
- It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
- In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
- We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
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