Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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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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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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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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