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However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld