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13535 quotesIn most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Gratitude
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 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 for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
Failure
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 is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
Envy
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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Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
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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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Failure
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Mind
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Style
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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Only the great can afford to have great defects.
Faults
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
Action
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
Enemies
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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
Speakers and Speaking
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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Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
Argument
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