François de La Rochefoucauld

François de La Rochefoucauld

"It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man."
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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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"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."
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"“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”"
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"Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it."
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"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
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"Taste may change, but inclination never."
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"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
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"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever."
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"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
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"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources."
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"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."
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"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."
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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
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"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."
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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
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"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
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"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
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"What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them."
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