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12 Quotes for 'François Duc de La Rochefoucauld' in the Database.
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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Topic: Courage
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Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
Topic: Cunning
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
Topic: Eloquence
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Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Topic: Hope
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Topic: Humility
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Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Topic: Jealousy
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Topic: Love
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The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
Topic: Merit
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We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
Topic: Motives
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Topic: Romance
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Topic: Vanity
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Topic: Vanity
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