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Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

French writer

Lived from: 1613 - 1680

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 15 september 1613 Died: 17 march 1680

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  • We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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  • We pardon to the extent that we love.
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  • We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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  • We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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  • We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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  • We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
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  • We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
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  • We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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  • We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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  • Weak people cannot be sincere.
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  • Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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  • What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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  • What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
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  • What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
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  • What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
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  • What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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  • What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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  • When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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  • When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
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  • When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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