FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD QUOTES VII

French author (1613-1680)

Did we not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never hurt us.

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What makes the vanity of others unsupportable is that it wounds our own.

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We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.

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Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

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The head can't long act the part of the heart.

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It is far easier to know men than to know man.

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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

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Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

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There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

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We may say, vices wait on us in the course of our life as the landlords with whom we successively lodge, and if we traveled the road twice over, I doubt if our experience would make us avoid them.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

attributed, Encyclopædia of Quotations: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs

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To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.

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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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The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

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Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.

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A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

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Death and the sun can't be looked at steadily.

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We try to make a virtue of vices we are loath to correct.

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The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

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We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

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If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

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