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Our Own Quotes by François De La Rochefoucauld
- What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
- We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like…
- 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…
- When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
- What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
- That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
- We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
- We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
- Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them…
- Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.
- If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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