Taste may change, but inclination never.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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