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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
Our envy always lasts much longer than the happiness of those we envy.
There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.
We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.
The renown of great men should always be measured by the means which they have used to acquire it.
The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.
If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing them in others.
We only admit to minor faults to persuade ourselves that we have no major ones.
We have scarcely any faults which are not more pardonable than the shifts we make to hide them.
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Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.
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