French author (1613-1680)
We may appear great in an employment below our merit; but we often appear little in an employment that is too great for us.
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Moral Maxims
We may say, vices wait on us in the course of our life as the landlords with whom we successively lodge, and if we traveled the road twice over, I doubt if our experience would make us avoid them.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
attributed, Encyclopædia of Quotations: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs
We try to make a virtue of vices we are loath to correct.
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Fortune turns everything to the advantage of her favorites.
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Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
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We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
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Did we not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never hurt us.
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We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.
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Jealousy is always born with love, but doesn't always die with it.
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Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.
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It is far easier to know men than to know man.
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Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.
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The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
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Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.
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There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.
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A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.
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The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.
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A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.
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What makes the vanity of others unsupportable is that it wounds our own.
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