Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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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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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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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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