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FRANCOIS LA ROCHEFOUCAULD



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In jealousy, there is more self love than love.

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In love, deceit goes almost always further than distrust.

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In love, the party that is first cured, is always the best cured.

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In old love, as in old age, we live to pain, when we live no longer to pleasure.

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Interest sets at work all sorts of virtues and vices.

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Interest speaks all sorts of languages, and acts all sorts of parts, even that of the disinterested person.

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Interest, which blinds some people, enlightens others.

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It is a great point of capacity to be able to conceal one's capacity.

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It is as commendable in a man to entertain a good opinion of himself, as it is ridiculous too show it.

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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Maxim 132

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It is easier to know mankind in general, than any one man in particular.

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It is impossible to love a second time the thing that we have once truly ceased to love.

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It is more dishonourable to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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It is more neccessary to study men than books.

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It is not enough for a man to have great qualities, he must have the good government of them too.

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It is not less prudence sometimes to know how to use good advice, than to be able to advise one's self.

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It is not so much the fruitfullness of our invention which suggests to us many expedients to effect the same affair, as it is the defect of our judgement, which makes us pitch upon every thought that presents itself to our imagination, and prevents us from discerning the best at first.

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It is not the power of a weak man to be sincere.

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It is with certain good qualities as it is with our senses: Those that are entirely deprived of them, can neither discern nor comprehend them.

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It is with gratitude as with trust amongst tradesmen; it keeps up commerce; and we do not pay because it is just to discharge our debts, but to engage people the more easily to lend us another time.

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