French - Writer | September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
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People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
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We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
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