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May Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.
- We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
- Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage…
- Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we…
- It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.
- How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.
- No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them...
- Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
- However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.
- However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find…
- Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried…
- Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but…
- 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…
- However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
- People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the…
- 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…
- We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
- Taste may change, but inclination never.
- We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
- In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may…
- One may outwit another, but not all the others.
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
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