However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHowever rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGreat souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFew things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOld age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDToo great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTaste may change, but inclination never.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDMen give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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