François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes - Page 2

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it.
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To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
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He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.
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It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.
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There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.
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We forgive so long as we love.
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True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.
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It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.
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A weakling is incapable of sincerity.
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Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.
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Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.
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Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
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One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
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In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
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Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
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How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
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