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Order Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.
- Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.
- Organize one's values in the order of their worth
- In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.
- A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.
- We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.
- Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to…
- The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
- We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.
- What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
- We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
- We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
- We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.
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