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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Work, Office, Doe
"Maximes", 164, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 919-20, 1922.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship, Self, Office
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 83, 1678.

We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Death, Eye, Office

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