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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Too great haste in paying off an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.
We always like those who admire us.
Few people know how to be old.
We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The world more frequently recompenses the appearance of merit, than merit itself.
True bravery is shown by performing, without witnesses, what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them, to praise which deceives them.
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