La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
[Philosophy]
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, serves also to moderate it.
[Pride]
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Quarrels would never last long if the fault was only on one side.
[Quarrels]
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Raillery is sometimes more insupportable than wrong; we have a right to resent injuries, but it is ridiculous to be angry at a jest.
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Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
[Reason]
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Self-love is the greatest of flatterers.
[Flattery]
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Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.
[Silence]
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Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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