FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD QUOTES IV

French author (1613-1680)

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

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Our virtues are usually just vices in disguise.

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Only great men have great faults.

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The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.

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Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

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Hope and fear are inseparable.

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We often glory in the most criminal passions; but envy is a shameful passion we never dare own.

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In love, the quickest is always the best cure.

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The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit.

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Those who have had great passions often find all their lives made miserable in being cured of them.

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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

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Few know how to be old.

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Some weak people are sensible of their weakness and able to make good use of it.

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Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

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It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.

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Weakness is the only fault which cannot be cured.

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The surest way to be cheated is to fancy ourselves more cunning than others.

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The head is always the bubble of the heart.

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Whatever difference may appear in men's fortunes, there is nevertheless a certain compensation of good and ill that makes all equal.

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However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

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