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How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

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Life, Ideas, Want

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

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Fool, Sometimes, Wit

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

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Death, Sun

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

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Brain, Culture, Fool
"Maximes". No. 451 (1665 - 1678). Translation by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell, 1871.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

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Wise, Mind, Habit

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

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Mind, Use, Spots

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

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Wise, Men, Fool

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

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Sobriety, Inability, Temperance

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

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Passion, Fire, Wind

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

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Leaving, Vices, Imagine

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

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Cheating, Intention, Cheated
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 118, 1678.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

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Love, Friendship, Broken Heart

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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Clever, Desire, Becoming

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.

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Clever, Different, Way

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

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Life, Wise, Thinking
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 209, 1678.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

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Self, People, Blind

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

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Greatness, Men, Defects
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, Maximes, 1922.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

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People, Faults, Merit

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

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People, Endure

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

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Jealousy, Thinking, Envy

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

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Safety, Age, Youth

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

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Religious, Lying, Ambition

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

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Inspirational, World, Action

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

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Action, Praiseworthy

When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion, Heart, Disturbed

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