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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Speak, Ill, Egotism
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 138, 1678.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

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Reputation, Quiet, Virtue

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Loss, Needs, Opinion

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

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Firsts, Modern, Ends

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

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Men, Wicked, Vices

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

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Lying, Passion, Heart

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

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Stars, Lucky, Our Actions

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

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Love, Fear, Fire

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

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Believe, Wish, Looks

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

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Men, Design, Owing

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

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Enemy, Opinion, Form

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

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Positive Thinking, Mind, Rate

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

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Faults, Excuse, Idleness

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Taken, Pride, Want

Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.

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Friendship, Men, Names

There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.

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Women, Charm, Women Beauty

There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

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Women, Intrigue, Scarce

Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.

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Love Is, Constancy, Objects

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Stars, Gains, Merit

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

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Liberty, Emulation, Example

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

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Example, Disorder, Catching

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

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Should Have, Flattery, Pleasure

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

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People, Enlightening, Interest

As love increases, prudence diminishes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Increase, Intrigue, Prudence

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Song, People, Popularity

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