François de La Rochefoucauld
"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength."
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"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said and that only."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"To establish oneself in the world one has to do all one can to appear established."
François de La Rochefoucauld
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