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Quotes by La Rochefoucauld

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
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"People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about."
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"The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves."
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"Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment."
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"We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us."
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"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
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"We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us."
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"Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it."
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"The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks."
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"For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice."
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"Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities,"
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"We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire."
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"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears."
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"How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the s"
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"We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we be"
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"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."
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"Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it."
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"Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side."
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"Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims)"
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"The mind cannot long act the role of the heart."
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"If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
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"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
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"If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength."
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