Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Philosophical

“The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.”

Giving Should Pleasure

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

Thoughtful

“There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.”

Use Simplicity Stupidity

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Philosophical

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

Faults Excuse

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Philosophical

“We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.”

Thinking Boredom

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Philosophical

“Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.”

Fortune Mercy Probity

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Philosophical

“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.”

Desire Clever

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Funny

“Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.”

Littles Helping

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Thoughtful

“The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.”

Thinking Agreement Listening To Others

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Thoughtful

“Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.”

Wish Faults Dangerous

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Courageous

“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.”

Inspirational Perfect Courage

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Philosophical

“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”

Mean Heart Passion

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Philosophical

“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.”

Enemy Form Opinion

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