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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Category: Advice Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
Category: Age Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
Category: Children Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
Category: Flirtation Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Source: Maxims
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Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
Category: Flirtation Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Source: Maxims
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Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.
Category: Flirtation Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Source: Maxims
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Category: Gratitude Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Category: Hope Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Category: How True Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Category: Humility Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
Category: Jealousy Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Category: Jealousy Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
Category: Jealousy Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
Category: Jealousy Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
Category: Love Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Category: Love Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
Category: Marriage Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
Category: People Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
Category: Promises Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.
Category: Self Control Author: Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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