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Lives Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and…
- The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
- Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
- Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
- He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
- It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the…
- Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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