If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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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 for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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