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Too Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
- There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.
- It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
- As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price…
- Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
- 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…
- Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we…
- Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
- Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
- We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
- Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
- Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
- 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…
- To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
- Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
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