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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Quotes (661)

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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.
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Even women are perfect at the outset.
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A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.
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We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
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He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.
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It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
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There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.
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Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
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A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.
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There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
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Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.
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Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
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We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.
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Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
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Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
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Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
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Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
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There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.
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The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
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