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Ourselves Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
- Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
- We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
- The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
- We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
- The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
- We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
- If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
- How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
- If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
- We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
- There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us…
- We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
- What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
- It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
- We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
- We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
- We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
- If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of…
- It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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- By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. — Saint Augustine
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