It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
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Quotes by La Rochefoucauld
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Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
The confidence which we have in ourselves engenders the greatest part of that which we have in others.
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Perfect courage is todo without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world.
We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire.
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
The gratitude of most men is nothing but a secret desire to receive greater benefits.
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.
It is a wearisome illness to preserve one's health by too strict a regimen.
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
Everyone complains of hismemory, and no one complains of his judgment.
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.
Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit.
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
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