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Which Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 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.
- There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
- Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
- What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in…
- Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
- It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
- What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
- Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
- Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
- We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
- There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us…
- There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the…
- Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
- Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
- Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
- Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
- That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
- The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
- There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
- If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of…
- Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is…
- When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
- 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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