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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Ridiculous Never Through Pretend

Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.

John Benjamin Hickey

Work Now Nothing More Get Anxious

It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Maurice Hinchey

American Price Oil Without Clear

To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

Impact American Security Price Stop

There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.

Nature Law World America Powerful

For me, education was power.

Education Power Me

The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that.

Jordan Peterson

Life Live Humor Struggle People You

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

Power Responsibility Think Sand Lose

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

Encourage Use Programs Concluded

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Believe Never Anything Been Until

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

Good Book Better You Real Reason

Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence in science.

Science Mom Brain You Kind Worst

I just like to spend time with my family and friends, especially my children.

Family Children Time Friends Just

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