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Francois La Rochefoucauld has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes
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A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
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Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just drowns you…
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success
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Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear
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The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire
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Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us…
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The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to…
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We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
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The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from the passion…
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We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— Saint Augustine
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as…
— Annie Besant
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
— John Churton Collins
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
— Holbrook Jackson
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Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
— Unknown Author
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We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
— Lyman Beecher
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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our…
— Edward Dahlberg
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A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.…
— Jose Rizal
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Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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