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.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSome accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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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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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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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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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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