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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld