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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Quotes (661)

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Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.
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Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
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A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.
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It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
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Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.
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The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
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We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
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The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.
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To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
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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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Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
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There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.
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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
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Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
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The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.
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Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.
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It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.
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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.
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What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
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