| 47 Famous Quotes by Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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“In the adversity of our best friends we often find something
which does not displease us.
[Fr., Dans l'adversite de nos meilleurs amis nous trouvons
toujours quelque chose ne nous deplaist pas.]”
Adversity Quotes Source: Maxim (99)
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a
man's character, give him power.”
Adversity Quotes Source: Maxim (99)
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“How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it
ourselves.”
Secrecy Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 90)
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“We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of
judgment.
[Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de l'esprit; mais on ne
l'est jamais avec du jugement.]”
Judgment Quotes Source: Maximes (456)
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“We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced
danger.
[Fr., On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete
dans le peril.]”
Courage Quotes Source: Premier Supplement (42)
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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every
virtue at the testing point.”
Courage Quotes Source: Premier Supplement (42)
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“Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is
solid refinement.”
Comparisons Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 131)
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“We say little if not egged on by vanity.
[Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]”
Vanity Quotes Source: Maximes (137)
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“That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that
which wounds our own.
[Fr., Ce qui nous rend la vanite des autres insupportable, c'est
qu'elle blesse la notre.]”
Vanity Quotes Source: Maximes (389)
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“Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
[Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu.]”
Hypocrisy Quotes Source: Maximes (218)
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“Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their
heads, were like the little images that they place in the very
bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up
the church, but are but puppets.”
Hypocrisy Quotes Source: Maximes (218)
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“We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree
with us.”
Opinion Quotes Source: Maxims (347)
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“There are heroes in evil as well as in good.”
Heroes Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 194)
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“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
Praise Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 152)
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“That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised
me less.
[Fr., Cela est beau, et je vous louerais davantage si vous
m'aviez loue moins.]”
Praise Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 152)
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“True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one
might be capable of doing before all the world!”
Bravery Quotes Source: Maxims (216)
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“Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.”
Satire Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 508)
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“We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the
manner in which it is done.
[Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que
a maniere de flatter.]”
Flattery Quotes Source: Maximes (329)
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“Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an
agreeable manner.”
Flattery Quotes Source: Maxims (103)
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“It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
[Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands
defauts.]”
Greatness Quotes Source: Maximes
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“The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they
are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are
infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive
than the most eloquent without it.”
Oratory Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 9)
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“It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
[Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a
pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]”
Worth Quotes Source: Maximes (164)
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“Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome
malady.”
Health Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 285)
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“Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.”
Health Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 285)
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“The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart
as much as in the language.
[Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et
dans le coeur comme dans le langage.]”
Language Quotes Source: Maximes (342)
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