Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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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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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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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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