Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes - Page 6

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• I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

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  Gratitude, Thinking, Extraordinary Moments

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• Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.

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  Country, Names, Numbers

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• It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

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  Impossible

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• We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

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  Past, Sometimes, Praise

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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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• Taste may change, but inclination never.

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  May, Taste, Inclination

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• Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Mind

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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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• True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

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  Mean, Bravery, Solitude

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• Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

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  Death, Science, Sun

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• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

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  Perfect, Behaviour, Indifference

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• It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

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  Love, True Love, Cheesy Love

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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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• Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

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  Wise, Mistake, Errors

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• There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

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  Beauty, Too Much, Brilliant

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• The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

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  Age, Example, Complaining

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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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• We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

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  Love, Admiration, Admire

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• Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.

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  Love Is, Soul, Body

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• The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

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  Fear, Vanity, Talking

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• Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

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  Heart, Mind, Speak

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• Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

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  Desire, Should, Delusion

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.229

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• Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem.

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  Courage, Men, Roots

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• It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 132, 1678.

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• Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

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  Jealousy, Thinking, Envy

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