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Nor Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.
- There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn…
- Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence…
- It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.
- 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…
- It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.
- It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long…
- Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
- We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
- On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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