"Those learned in the law, when they do……" — Francois La Rochefoucauld
"Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, Pay, pay anything rather than go to law"
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Francois La Rochefoucauld
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48 Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
Francois La Rochefoucauld has 48 quotes on this site.
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes
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A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
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Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just…
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail…
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Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or…
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The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we…
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Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence…
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The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the…
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We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
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The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from…
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We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
— Arthur Ashe
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
— Sri Aurobindo
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
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The worst men often give the best advice.
— Francis Bacon
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
— Francis Bacon
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
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