Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDA man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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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 and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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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