The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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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 seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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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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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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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