| 23 Famous Quotes by François de la Rochefoucauld
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“Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully”
Accidents Quotes |
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“A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles”
Blessings Quotes |
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“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire.”
Blessings Quotes |
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“It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness”
Cleverness Quotes |
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“The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example”
Example Quotes |
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“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.”
Habit Quotes |
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“The heart is forever making the head its fool.”
Heart Quotes |
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“Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear”
Impulses Quotes |
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“When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity”
Infidelity Quotes |
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“Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment”
Jealousy Quotes |
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“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
Jealousy Quotes |
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“All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”
Kindness Quotes |
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“He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends”
Merit Quotes |
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“It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them”
Mistrust Quotes |
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“We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle”
Obligation Quotes |
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“Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.”
Opportunity Quotes |
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“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts”
Politeness Quotes |
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“Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.”
Quarrels Quotes |
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“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”
Repentance Quotes |
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“A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him”
Satisfaction Quotes |
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“Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it”
Timidity Quotes |
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“The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves”
Violence Quotes |
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“We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity”
Violence Quotes |
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François de la Rochefoucauld Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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