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The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
By Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld