Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSome accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDA man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe intellect is always fooled by the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDConfidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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