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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld