Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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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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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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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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