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François De La Rochefoucauld (Writer)

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.
— François De La Rochefoucauld fate
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld desire
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld happy
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld death
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld love
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld beautiful
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld crime
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld advice
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld men
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld people
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld wisdom
Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
— 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 joy
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld confidence
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld trust
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld death
The more you know the less you need to say.
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld you
To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld friends
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 memory

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