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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Usually we praise only to be praised. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In love we often doubt what we most believe. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person? - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always get bored with those whom we bore. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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