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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
A great many mens gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
A mans worth has its season, like fruit. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Conceit causes more conversation than wit. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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