FranÁois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.
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The confidence which we have in ourselves engenders the greatest part of that which we have in others
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others
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Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.
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The defects of the mind are like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening
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The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.
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Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
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Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty
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