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"We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."
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"The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others."
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"Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"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."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld