Boredom Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

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Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

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“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”

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Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves…

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A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

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We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

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The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in…

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It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

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The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

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Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

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Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

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Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring.

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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

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I'm bored of being bored because being bored is very boring

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When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else.

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I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

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“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.”

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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

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We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And…

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That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which…

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Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

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The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

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