Quotes by La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
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"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice
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"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice
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"The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice
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"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice
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"As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging
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"Few people know how to be old."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging
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"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on decency
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"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on deception
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"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on desire
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"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on diets and dieting
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"We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on egotism
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"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on eloquence
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on enemies
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"Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on enemies
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"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"It is not enough to succeed, others must fail."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on evil
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"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on evil
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"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on failure
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"It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,"
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on failure
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"The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on fame
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"We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on faults
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"Only the great can afford to have great defects."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on faults
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"If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on faults
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"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on flattery
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"All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on flirting
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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on fools and foolishness
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"We pardon to the extent that we love."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on forgiveness
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"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship
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"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship
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