Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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