It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFuneral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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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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