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Make Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
- We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.
- The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
- The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
- Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.
- Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all…
- We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.
- Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at…
- The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
- There are some bad qualities which make great talents.
- Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
- Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
- There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it…
- 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.
- It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
- Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
- We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
- All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
- Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
- We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
- We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
- Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the…
- Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
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