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Who Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
- 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…
- We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
- One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
- Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
- There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
- It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
- Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
- There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
- Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
- We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
- There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
- Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
- We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
- He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
- We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
- When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
- Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
- Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
- There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
- We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
- Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them…
- No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally…
- You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
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