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True Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
- It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have…
- A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
- The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.
- True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
- Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
- Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
- He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it…
- Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
- Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
- What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.
- True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
- However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
- It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
- True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
- True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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