“We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
Picture Quote“One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.”
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“To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.”
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“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
Picture Quote“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
Picture Quote“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
“It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
Picture Quote“A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
Picture Quote“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld —
Picture Quote“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”
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