Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes - Page 12

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• We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

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  Inspirational, Growth, Self Improvement

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• Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

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  Envy, Hatred, Envied

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• No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

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  Brain, Culture, Fool

  "Maximes". No. 451 (1665 - 1678). Translation by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell, 1871.

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• Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

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  Mind, Use, Spots

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• Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

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  Favors, Blind, Fortune

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• Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

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  Law, Decency

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• We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

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  World, Deeds, Should

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• Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Gossip, Female

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• The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

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  Friendship, July, Letters

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• We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.

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  Clever, Different, Way

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• It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

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  Science, Men, Psychology

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• Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

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  Demand, Littles, Sometimes

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• A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

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  Men, Deception, Deceiving

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• Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

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  Mind, Taste, Judgment

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• Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

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  Quality, Goodness, Notion

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• None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

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  Fear, Atheism, Weakness

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• We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

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  Wife, Should, Acknowledge

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.195

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• The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

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  Love, Passion, Joy

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• Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

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  Crazy, Half, Sometimes

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• A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

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  Men, Long, Kind

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• Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

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  Needs, Littles, Madness

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• None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

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  Contempt

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• It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

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  Believe, Men, Mind

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• Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.

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  Hate, Men, Benefits

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• The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

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  Men, Unhappy, He Man

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