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| Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| There is great ability in knowing how to conveal one's ability. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful. |
| by Francois la Rochefoucauld |
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