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Least Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
- There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.
- A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
- Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
- If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
- Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
- No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
- 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…
- Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
- Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
- That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
- 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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