Quotes by La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship   

"Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on funerals   

"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on generosity   

"What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on generosity   

"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on agreement   

"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on agreement   

"Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on goals   

"There are few good women who do not tire of their role."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on goodness   

"Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on grace
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on gratitude   

"In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on gratitude   

"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on greatness
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"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on happiness
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"We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on happiness
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"When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hatred
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"It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on health   

"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on heroes and heroism   

"Hope and fear are inseparable."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hope
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"Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hope
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"Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on humility
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"The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on humor   

"Fortune and humor govern the world."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on humor   

"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hypocrisy
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"The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on imitation   

"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on imitation   

"Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on ingratitude   

"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on innocence   

"It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on interest   

"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on judgment and judges
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"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!"

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on leadership
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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."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on anticipation   

"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on appearance   

"To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on appearance   

"Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on argument
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