FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD QUOTES V

French author (1613-1680)


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Weakness is the only fault which cannot be cured.

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Maxims


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Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

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Moral Maxims

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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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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


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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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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Few know how to be old.

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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

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The desire of appearing persons of ability often prevents our being so.

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Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

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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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Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.

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To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune.

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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.

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We should manage our fortune as our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when 'tis bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity.

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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

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attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


We may appear great in an employment below our merit; but we often appear little in an employment that is too great for us.

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There are crimes which become innocent, and even glorious, through their splendor, number, and excess: Hence it is, that public theft is called Address, and to seize on Provinces unjustly, to make Conquests.

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The only good copies are those that point out the ridicule of bad originals.

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We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

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We may say, vices wait on us in the course of our life as the landlords with whom we successively lodge, and if we traveled the road twice over, I doubt if our experience would make us avoid them.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

attributed, Encyclopædia of Quotations: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs

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