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There are 159 quotes for the author Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
Subject: Wisdom Success

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Subject: Sincerity Judgment
Work: Maximes (1678)

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.
Subject: Jealousy

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
Subject: Wisdom Wealth

Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
Subject: Advice Mock

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Subject: Friendship

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.
Subject: Sincerity Action

The pleasure of love is in loving.
Subject: Love & Romance

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Subject: Health
Work:

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
Subject: Listening
Work:

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
Subject: Wisdom

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Subject: Peace

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
Subject: Character

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
Subject: Fear

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
Subject: Wisdom

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Subject: Sincerity

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Subject: Memory
Work:

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Subject: Advice

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Subject: Gratitude
Work:

Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.
Subject: Conversation

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