Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes

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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

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.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.