Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDA man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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