Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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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
Our pride rather than our virtue criticizes the faults of others We reprove our friends less to correct their faults than to show that weourselves are free of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
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The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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