Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Women’s virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“One forgives to the degree that one loves.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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