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Appear Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 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 establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
- We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.
- When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it…
- In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.
- A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.
- One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does…
- It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
- We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
- Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
- We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
- In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may…
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