Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes - Page 35

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• Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot.

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  Overcoming, May, Littles

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• Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

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  Wise, Lying, Ridiculous

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• A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

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  First Love, Long, Cynical

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• On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

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  Powerful, Ambition, Generosity

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• When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

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  Love Is, Infidelity, Welcome

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• Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

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  Our Actions, Rhyme, Please

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• You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

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  Deception, Trying, Fool

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• To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

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  Doe, World, Oneself

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• The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

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  Real, Knowledge, Age

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• Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

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  Mind, Politeness, Delicate

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• We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

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  Hate, Way, Flattery

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• We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

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  Advice, Vices, Credit

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• Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

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  Wisdom, Advice, Given

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 110, 1678.

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• It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

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  Health, Disease, Strict

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• If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

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  Purpose, Speak, Silent

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• Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

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  Vanity, Giving, May

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• Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

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  Men, Care, Littles

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• It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

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  Party, Taken, Pride

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• Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

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  Deceit, Distrust, Justify

  "Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard".

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• Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

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  True Friend, Envy, Coquetry

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• The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.

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  Heart, Play, Long

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• Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

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  Way, Imagine, Fortune

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• Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

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  Friendship, Self, Office

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 83, 1678.

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• We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

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  Benefits

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• Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

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  Happiness, People, Evil

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