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Men Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
- The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes
- Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success
- The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to humiliate others are…
- Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
- Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.
- Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know…
- The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
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