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A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men
Gratitude
Desire
Nothing
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope
End
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Understanding
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love
Ambition
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love
Jealousy
Self
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Certainty
Doubt
Jealousy
Madness
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People
Conversation
Reason
Saying
Thinking
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue
Hypocrisy
Vice
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth
Distrust
Sincerity
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom
Action
Effect
Intention
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men
Succeed
Want
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men
Advice
Nothing
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Change
People
Habit
Blood
Old