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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Inspirational Quotes (661)

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There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.
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It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
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The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance
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To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself
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If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.
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The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
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Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully
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There are various sorts of curiosity one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.
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Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.
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Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.
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Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money
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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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Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt
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Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
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He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
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Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
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The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
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It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
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