François de La Rochefoucauld quotes - page 19

The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, But never of judgment. View quote
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Truth does not do so much good in the world, As the appearance of it does evil. View quote
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Organize one's values in the order of their worth. View quote
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There are two sorts of constancy in loveone arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant. View quote
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Self love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice. View quote
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We often boast that we are never bored, but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others. View quote
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Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range. View quote
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The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others. View quote
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Weakness is more opposite to virtue than is vice itself. View quote
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To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
We should not judge of a mans merit by his good qualities, but by the use he can make of them. View quote
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There is an air which belongs to the figure and talents of each individual; we always lose it when we abandon it to assume another. We should try to find out what air is natural to us and never abandon it, but make it as perfect as we can. This is the reason that the majority of children please. It is because they are wrapt up in the air and manner nature has given them, and are ignorant of any other. They are changed and corrupted when they quit infancy, they think they should imitate what they see, and they are not altogether able to imitate it. In this imitation there is always something of falsity and uncertainty. They have nothing settled in their manner and opinions. Instead of being in reality what they want to appear, they seek to appear what they are not. View quote
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On donne des conseils mais on n'inspire point de conduite. View quote
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