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To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Opportunity, Men, Turns

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Doe, Dishonor

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Favors, Blind, Fortune

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

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Path, Praise, Virtue

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

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Men, Ordinary, Ordinary Man

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

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Envy, Hatred, Envied

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

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Art, Play, Quality

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

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Agitation, Doe, Littles

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

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World, Deeds, Should

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Law, Decency

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vanity, Littles, Speak

Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

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Insipid

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Science, Men, Psychology

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Quality, Goodness, Notion

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mind, Taste, Judgment

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

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People, Would Be, Goodness

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

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Patience, Vanity, People

We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wife, Should, Acknowledge
Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.195

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion, Blood, Degrees
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 580-81, Premier Supplement, VIII, 1922.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Inspirational, Growth, Self Improvement

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

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Demand, Littles, Sometimes

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Needs, Littles, Madness

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

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Heart, Imagine, Contradiction

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Contempt

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness, Joy, Torment

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