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7190 quotesIf it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Company
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Wisdom
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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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
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
Selfishness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Advice
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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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Appearance
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Age and Aging
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Passion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Valor
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Places
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
Women
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
self-esteem
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Cleverness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
Fame
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
Modesty
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Psychology
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
Advice
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
Imitation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Envy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Deception
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Interest
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun