François de La Rochefoucauld quotes - page 4

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. View quote
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. View quote
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. View quote
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. View quote
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. View quote
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We all have enough strength to bear other people's woes. View quote
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The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire. View quote
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Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body. View quote
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Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates. View quote
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. View quote
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We need greater virtues to sustain good fortune than bad. View quote
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What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. View quote
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Few persons know how to be old. View quote
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As we age, we become more foolish and wiser. View quote
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. View quote
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When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we have left them. View quote
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. View quote
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. View quote
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We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities. View quote
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There are good marriages, but no delicious ones. View quote
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Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as a fear of the ill that may befall us. View quote
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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so. View quote
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