All Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
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Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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