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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld