La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger.
[Courage]
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
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No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines.
[Happiness]
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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
[Impossibility]
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Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.
[Advice]
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Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
[Goodness]
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Nothing is so contagious as example.-Never was any considerable good or evil done without producing its like.- We imitate good actions through emulation; and bad ones through the evil of our nature, which shame conceals, but example sets at liberty.
[Example]
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
[Manners]
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Of all our faults, that which we most readily admit is indolence.-We persuade ourselves that it cherishes all the peaceful virtues, and that without destroying the others it merely suspends their functions.
[Idleness]
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Old age is a tyrant, which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death.
[Age]
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
[Advice]
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
[Women]
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One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
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