Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
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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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Almost Always Cease Fault Love Realize
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue

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