Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes and Sayings
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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
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A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
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A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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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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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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