Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNever give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHowever greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDAll the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFuneral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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 ROCHEFOUCAULDOne is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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