Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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“What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.”

Exercise Vanity Generosity

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

Philosophical

“We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.”

May Symmetry Agreeableness

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Wise

“It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.”

Men Greatness

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Angry

“More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.”

Men Design

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Love

“Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.”

Chance Luck Faults

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Motivated

“To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.”

Men Greatness

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Philosophical

“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.”

Passion Blood

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Angry

“The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.”

Lying Religious Ambition

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Thoughtful

“We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.”

Inspirational Growth

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Melancholic

“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”

Time Death

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Funny

“Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.”

Men Ordinary

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Melancholic

“We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves.”

Forget Crime

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