There are very few people who are not ashamed to be loved when they no longer do.
Quotes from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims — François de La Rochefoucauld
1613–1680 France
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There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665)
There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully.
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Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
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It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.
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Sometimes one must be base in order not to be tricked by a clever man.
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Nothing prevents us being natural so much as the desire to appear so.
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We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.
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Of all violent passions, the least unbecoming to a woman is love.
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It is easier to know man in general than to know one man.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
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One is never so happy or so unhappy as one fancies.
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In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
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There are good marriages, but no delicious ones.
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Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue.
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In love, the first healed is the best healed.
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Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
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The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665)
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665)
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: François de La Rochefoucauld (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.