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Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Delicacy, Refinement, Comparison
"Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". No. 131, 1665 - 1678.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Clever, Opportunity, People

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hero, Advantage, Fortune

The only security is courage.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Security

Hope and fear are inseparable.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope, Expectations, Inseparable

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Women, Passion

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mind, Talent, Ability

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Shame, Praise, Arise

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Done, Violence, Painful

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Heart, Birth Place, Mind

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Genius, May, Talent
"Reflections: Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Open Road Media, maxim 400, 2017.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hate, Thinking, Deception

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Trying, World, Gains

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Heroism, Literature, Hunger

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Confidence, Share, Conversation

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fool, Enough, Be Good

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mind, Body, Mysterious
Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.145

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ridiculous

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mind, Body, Indolence

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Judging, Quality

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vanity, Doe, Littles
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 137, 1678.

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Real, Goodness

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude, Credit, Debt

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ambition, Humility, Pride

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Depression, Patience, Mind

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