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Funny Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
- We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
- Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.
- Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
- Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
- The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we…
- Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
- A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
- We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.
- It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.
- There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
- There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
- The only security is courage.
- Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.
- We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
- Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
- Only the contemptible fear contempt.
- Usually we praise only to be praised.
- We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.
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