A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNot all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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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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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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