Quotes by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
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The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
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Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
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Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
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Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
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Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.
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If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter.
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