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Francois de La Rochefoucauld181 quotes“No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.”
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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