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It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wise, Examination, Expediency

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

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People, Choices, Fool

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

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Passion, Lovers

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People, Giving, Calm
"Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, No. 18, 1665.

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

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Friendship, Vanity, Littles

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

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Men, Faithful, His Love

There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life, Success, Fate

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

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Envy, Felicity, Objects

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Unhappy, He Man

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

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Desire, Natural, Appearing

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Determination, Real, Character

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

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Passion, Honor, Peers

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

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Natural, Being Natural, Hinder

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Vices

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope, Mistake, Sacrifice

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

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Fashionable

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Confidence, Believe, May

Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.

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Ridiculous, Injury, Jest

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Courage, Perfect, World

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Names, People, Acting

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

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Money, Vanity, Criticism

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

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Gratitude, Ungrateful, Pleasure

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pride, Names, Receiving

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth, Doe, World

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Bores, Company, Weary

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