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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

Topics

Pain Jealousy Feel Vanity Shame Us

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

Hide Will Never Cost Cannot Promise

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

Andrew Clements

Best World Letters Teachers Get

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Dreams Great Believe Plan Accomplish

I moved out to New Zealand to live as I thought the warmth and peace and quiet would help me. I went away and changed my whole life routine.

Michael Crawford

Life Live Peace Me Thought Help

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

Love New York Listening New Jazz

The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

Me Small Growing Belief What If She

Obama-as-dad is my favorite Obama. Obama-as-executive, with his stubborn faith in reasonableness in times absent of reason, presided over the country during its descent into madness. I find it a comfort that Obama-as-dad presided over a family that leaves the White House healthy and happy.

Family Faith Happy Stubborn Madness

Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.

Education Long Nation Improving Been

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Sea Simple Swimming Sharks Guy Just

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

Smile Eye Better Than Poke

My mother made the courageous decision to flee a tyrannized Cuba in the 1950s and bring her children to the United States, where I was born.

Mother Children Decision Born Cuba

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

Music Money Dance Genius You Want

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