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"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
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"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."
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"When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness."
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"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others."
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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."
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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?"
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"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."
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"However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"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."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld