Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes - Page 43

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• Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

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  And Love, Lasts, Increase

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• There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

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  Events, Praise, Trifling

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• Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

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  Self, Observation, One Time

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• It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

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  Affection, Ghost, Sincerity

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• Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

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  Kings, Real, Men

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• The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

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  Medicine, Vices, Poison

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• What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

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  Vices

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• The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

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  Years, Vivacity, Folly

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• We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

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  Wish, Desire, Want

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• The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

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  Clever, Eye, Mind

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• It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

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  Feelings, Wish, Quality

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• Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

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  Men, Envy, Mind

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• Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

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  Eye, Mind, May

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• When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

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  Hero, Ambition, Men

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• People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

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  Passion, People, Envy

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• Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

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  Believe, Hands, Envy

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• Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

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  Pride, Vanity, Cast Away

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• We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

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  Reason, Enough

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• The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

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  Whimsical, Fortune, Caprice

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• The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

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  Secret, Desire, Degradation

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• A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

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  Men, Ungrateful, Benefactors

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, maxim 95, 1665.

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• We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

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  Thinking, Light, Two

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• Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

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  Heart, Understanding, Praise

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• Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

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  Distance, Men, Perspective

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• A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

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  Men, Tests, Rational

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