We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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 so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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