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Few Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
- Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the…
- There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
- There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
- 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…
- Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
- There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.
- Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we…
- True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
- As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and…
- It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
- There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
- The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are…
- There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
- There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
- As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much…
- Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
- There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the…
- There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
- Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
- Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
- There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
- True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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