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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Reality, Vices, Virtue

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Successful, World, Succeed

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mean, Bravery, Solitude

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Action, Imagine

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Real, People, Faults

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

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Ambition, Order, Generosity

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Exercise, Vanity, Generosity

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age, Example, Complaining

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Children, Mind, Fever

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion, Men, Wisest Man
"Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, no. 7, 1665-1678.

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women, Young, Pointless

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, People, Sometimes

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Faults, Defects

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Contempt, Despicable, Despised

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Play, Cunning Man

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Quality, Faults, Please

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Heart, Mind

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

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Time, Desire, Praise

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Time, Silly, Age
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1655.

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Ease, Vain

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Impossible

Nothing is so catching as example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Example, Catching

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Clever, Cleverness

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pride, Vanity, Wish

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mind, Flattery, Gallantry
"Maxim", 103 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 276-277), 1922.

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