Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes - Page 4

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• Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

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  Integrity, Hypocrisy, Identity

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• Nothing is so contagious as example.

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  Example, Contagious

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• Weak people cannot be sincere.

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  People, Weakness, Sincerity

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• Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

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  Details, Irony, Remember

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• Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

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  Silence, Risk, Policy

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• To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

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  Greatness, Achieve, Should

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• If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

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  Relationship, Solitude, Finding Peace

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• The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

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  Taken, Mind, Skins

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• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

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  Perfect, Behaviour, Indifference

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• A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

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  Destiny, Men, Unhappiness

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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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• However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

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  Passion, Veils, May

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• Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

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  Heart, Winning, People

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 62, 1678.

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• A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

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  Wise, Winning, Men

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• The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

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  Thinking, Self, Deception

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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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• 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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• One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

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  Thinking, People, Doe

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• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

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  Love, Dream, Passion

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

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  Death, Science, Sun

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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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• Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.

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  Sweet, Strong, May

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• Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.

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  Fool, Madmen, Mediums

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• We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

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  Conceited, Bored, Egotism

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• We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

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  Envy, Competition, Imitation

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