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Very Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
- Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the…
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money
- It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able…
- When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
- Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
- We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
- There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
- There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
- We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
- Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
- There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the…
- Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it…
- Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to…
- We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
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