Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Wise

“To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.”

Men Believe Touching

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Angry

“Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.”

Ridiculous Cunning Appearing

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Happy

“We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.”

Pain Happiness

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Wise

“Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.”

Virtue Vices

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Love

“Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.”

Giving Fruit Flirting

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Philosophical

“What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.”

Different Action Virtue

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Angry

“People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.”

People Long

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Angry

“It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.”

Enough Failing

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Angry

“Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.”

Giving Business Advice

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Curious

“There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.”

Pride Curiosity Ignorant

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Philosophical

“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”

Past Philosophy Evil

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Philosophical

“High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.”

Light Views Vices

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