French - Writer | September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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We always get bored with those whom we bore.
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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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