1. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”

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2. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”

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3. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.”

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4. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.”

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5. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; But present evils triumph over it.”

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6. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.”

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7. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.”

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8. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.”

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9. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”

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10. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “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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11. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should Always have sufficient means. It is often merely for An excuse that we say things are impossible.”

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12. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.”

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13. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.”

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14. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.”

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15. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.”

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16. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Everyone complains of his memory; no one complains of his judgment.”

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17. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Few persons know how to be old.”

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18. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us.”

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19. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “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.”

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20. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”

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21. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “If we judge of love by most of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.”

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22. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it.”

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23. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “In jealousy there is more self-love than love.”

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24. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”

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25. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

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