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Person Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular
- To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
- The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest…
- There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from…
- Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
- A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
- Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those…
- We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
- Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect…
- Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same…
- How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the…
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