We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
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A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one but often our greed upsets this order and makes us run after so many things at once that through over-anxiety to obtain the trivial, we miss the most important.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are two sorts of constancy in loveone arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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