We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTimidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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