Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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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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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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