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François de La Rochefoucauld

Virtues
Weak people cannot be sincere.
3.2 · 6 votes · 18 reads
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Virtues
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
3.7 · 57 votes · 186 reads
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Virtues
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
3.9 · 51 votes · 63 reads
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Feelings
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
3.8 · 54 votes · 126 reads
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Feelings
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-
4.6 · 22 votes · 34 reads
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Virtues
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
3.4 · 18 votes · 192 reads
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Society
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
4.3 · 25 votes · 161 reads
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Feelings
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
4.9 · 38 votes · 193 reads
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Feelings
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
4.0 · 28 votes · 163 reads
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Thought and Reason
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
4.1 · 27 votes · 6 reads
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