"Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them."
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes (page 51 of 55)
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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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"Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love."
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"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."
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"Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites."
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"We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves."
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"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."
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"We are very far from always knowing our own wishes."
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"The mind cannot long play the heart's role."
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"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."
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"We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves."
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"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
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"Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them."
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"There is nothing men are so generous of as advice."
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"The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech."
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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."
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"It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Usually we praise only to be praised."
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