We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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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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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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