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136 quotes (Page 2 of 6 pages)If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Faults
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
Passion
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In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
Jealousy
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Gratitude
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Friends and Friendship
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It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
Health
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Promotion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
Men
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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
Failure
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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
Cleverness
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Wisdom
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Wisdom
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Friends and Friendship
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It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
Envy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Love
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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Wisdom
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Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
Jealousy
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Jealousy
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Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Jealousy
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Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
Selfishness
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Advice
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Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
Moderation
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Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
Moderation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
Death and Dying
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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