We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTaste may change, but inclination never.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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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 are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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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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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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