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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Love

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Cynical Life Truth

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Maxims Moral Philosophy Reflections

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Death Life Philosophy Sun

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Francois De La Rochefoucauld Love Romance

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Fear Hope

How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Friendship True Love

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Cleverness Foolishness Intelligence Madness Passion

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Actors Appearances World

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Courage Cynical Danger Life

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Foolishness Passion Wisedom

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Boredom People Society

A weakling is incapable of sincerity.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Psychology

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Man Mankind Psychology

True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Belief Ghosts Love True

We forgive so long as we love.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Forgiveness Love

Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Judgement Memory

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Desire Life

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Honesty Sincerity

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Eating Food

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much, but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Folly Pride

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Doubt Love

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Criticism

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Hypocrisy Vice Virtue

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Envy Insecurity Jealousy

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Deception

87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise. Yet we have scriptural authority for it: Deceiving and being deceived.—2 TIM. iii. 13.]

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Deception Interconnection

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Boredom Bores Boring

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Antidote Boredom

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Boring Days

We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Boring Days

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Peace Mind

Nothing is so infectious as example.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Role Models

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Self Confidence

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Self Confidence

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Self Reliance

I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld This Moment

True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld True Love

True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld True Love

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

François De La Rochefoucauld Friendship Men Self Love
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