Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDI have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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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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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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