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Been Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
- The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
- It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.
- The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still…
- How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
- There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
- One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
- Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
- The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds of the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still…
- I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where…
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