Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Philosophical

“He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]”

Thinking Wise Sage

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Grateful

“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.”

Thinking Men Happiness

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Wise

“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”

Self Love

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Funny

“Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.”

People Want

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Thoughtful

“A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.”

Men Fate Arrows

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Thoughtful

“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.”

Party Taken Pride

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Funny

“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”

Giving Money

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Thoughtful

“It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.”

Easy Deception

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Thoughtful

“Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.”

Giving May Vanity

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Wise

“If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.”

Purpose Speak Silent

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Spiritual

“It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.”

Health Disease

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Philosophical

“Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.”

Mind Body

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