If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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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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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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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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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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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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