Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

Wise

“Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.”

Mind Views Credit

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

Thoughtful

“In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.”

World Actors Wish

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Funny

“Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.”

Fool Mediums

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Spiritual

“Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.”

Mind Body

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Angry

“Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.”

Thinking Envy Jealousy

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Philosophical

“Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.”

Passion Design Events

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Wise

“There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.”

Virtue Certain

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Melancholic

“It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.”

Men Science

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Grateful

“To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.”

Action Share

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Funny

“We always get bored with those whom we bore.”

Bored Bores

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Melancholic

“Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.”

Envy Objects

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Wise

“Esteem never makes ingrates.”

Esteem Ingrates

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