French - Writer | September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
LoveHateMoreMayUsTo Love
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
MindCareBodySkinWillOut
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
WomanWearyHerTradeVirtuousMany
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
ManSometimesOthersDifferentHe
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
WisdomGreatActionIntentionPass
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
NothingSeemNaturalBeingMuch
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
CourageWorldLookingDoingPerfect
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
WomenReputationQuietNothingOwn
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
DesireGreatestEitherPartIntimate
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
HeartManMindSpeechCountryHis
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
WayOthersDeceivedOneselfThan
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
PromiseHopesDeliverOurProportion
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