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Out Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can…
- It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
- No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer…
- Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always…
- Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.
- Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
- The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still…
- Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
- Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how…
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
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