1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld
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What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.
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Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.
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There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.
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There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
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However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
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The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
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It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.
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