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Makes Quotes by François De La Rochefoucauld
- The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
- What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for…
- Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.
- What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
- What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
- If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
- Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money
- We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.
- What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
- One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does…
- However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.
- That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
- Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
- What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
- Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
- All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
- The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
- There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the…
- Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
- Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
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