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We are almost always bored by...

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

A man is ridiculous less thro...

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

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Some disguised deceits counte...

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

We frequently are troublesome...

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

We should not be upset that o...

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

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Our hopes, often though they ...

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

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It is not always for virtue's...

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

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Passion often makes fools of ...

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

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A man may be sharper than ano...

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

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A man often believes himself ...

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

Humility is often only a feig...

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

There are some people who wou...

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

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Men have written in the most ...

Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

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To safeguard one's health at ...

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

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Those who most obstinately op...

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.

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Absence abates a moderate pas...

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

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Neither the sun nor death can...

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

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True bravery is shown by perf...

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

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To establish yourself in the ...

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

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It is more often from pride t...

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

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