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17 Quotes for 'Francois de la Rochefoucauld' in the Database.
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Francois de la Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
Topic: Absence
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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
Topic: Admiration
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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Topic: Anticipation
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Topic: Behavior
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Topic: Chastity
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We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.
Topic: Disguise
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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
Topic: Evil
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We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
Topic: Flattery
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Topic: Fools
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Topic: Gratitude
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Topic: Innocence
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In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
Topic: Jealousy
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Topic: Pride
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How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
Topic: Secrets
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When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.
Topic: Vices
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We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
Topic: Weakness
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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
Topic: Wrong
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