François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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

"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves." 

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

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

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

"The only thing constant in life is change"

"We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us." 

"We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."

"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."

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

"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them."

"In love we often doubt what we most believe." 

''Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. "

"Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation."

"If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others." 

"A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice." 

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

"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

"Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when than when too highly finished"

"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised."

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

"Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness." 

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."

"Extreme boredom provides its own antidote."

"We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore". so true xD

''the intellect is always fooled by the heart.''

''a woman often think she regrets the lover, when she only regrets love.''




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