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In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Deceit, Distrust
Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.183

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Beauty, Beautiful, Love Is

The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fall, Passion, Soul

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, Friendship, True Friend

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

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Love, Passion, Blow

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

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Love, Jealousy, Self Love

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

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Able, Faults, Would Be

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

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Want, Reason, Consolation

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Feelings, Harder
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 56 in 1693 edition,

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self, Doe, Born

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

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Skills, Proof, Tricks

Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.

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Gratitude, Benefits, Lively

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Knows, Knowing Oneself, Oneself

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Easier, Posts, Seems

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

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Long, Firsts, Lovers

We give nothing so freely as advice.

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Giving, Advice

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

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Hypocrisy, Vices, Virtue

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

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Faults, Forget, Known

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Judging, Taste

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Health, Soul, Body

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Spiritual, Fall, Passion

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ridiculous, Cunning, Appearing

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Memories, Complaining, Judgment

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Generosity, Thrift, Avarice

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Envy, Hatred, Incapable

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