We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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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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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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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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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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