Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"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."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"People always complain about their memories, never about their minds."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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