Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes

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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women
Trade
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Excess
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People
Goodness
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Men
Society
Nothing
Vices
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Virtue
Self
Vices
Word
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Interest
Vices
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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Cunning
Self
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love
People
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Time
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Disguise
End
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Love
Hate
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Weakness
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Trying