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How Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
- Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect…
- Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
- How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
- It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
- To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
- Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same…
- Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how…
- How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the…
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