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Way Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that…
- We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
- We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who…
- The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
- We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
- Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
- Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
- Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.
- Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often…
- The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
- Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
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