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François de La Rochefoucauld
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Biography : French moralist, author of maxims and memoirs.
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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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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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
François de La Rochefoucauld





A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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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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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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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.
François de La Rochefoucauld





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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Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
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We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
François de La Rochefoucauld





One forgives to the degree that one loves.
François de La Rochefoucauld





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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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld





Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
François de La Rochefoucauld






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