Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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