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Part Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness…
- The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.
- The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.
- The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
- What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that…
- The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
- Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the…
- Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is…
- In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world…
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