No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHe who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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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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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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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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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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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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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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