Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes - Page 4

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• We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

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  Mind, Body, Idleness

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• We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

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  Understanding, Understanding Others

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• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

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  Perfect, Behaviour, Indifference

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• For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

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  Love, Truth, Fear

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• The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

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  Vanity, Enemy, Judgment

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• A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

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  Wise, Winning, Men

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• Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

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  Passion, Virtue, Indolence

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• The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

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  Thinking, Self, Deception

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• It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

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  Character, Fortune, Miscellaneous

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• Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

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  Heart, Winning, People

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 62, 1678.

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• Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

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  Incapacity, Cunning, Treachery

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• A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

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  Friendship, True Friend, Possession

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• Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

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  Health, Malady, Severe

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• 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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  Strength, Men, Sloth

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• If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

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  Relationship, Solitude, Finding Peace

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• The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

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  Mean, People, Rose

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• Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

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  Contempt, Despicable, Despised

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• The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

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  Hands, Use, Treatment

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• The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

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  Relationship, Love Is, Order

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• Taste may change, but inclination never.

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  May, Taste, Inclination

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• We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

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  Betrayal, People, Way

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• We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

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  Envy, Competition, Imitation

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• The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

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  Birthday, Mind, Age

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• Esteem never makes ingrates.

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  Ingrates, Esteem

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• People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

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  Views, People, Personality

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