We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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