Quote Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

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‘He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken.’

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‘Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.’

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‘To establish oneself in the world one does all one can to seem established there already.’

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‘Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application rather than of means that men fail to succeed.’

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‘We should not judge of a man?s merit by his good qualities but by the use he can make of them.’

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‘When not prompted by vanity we say little.’

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‘What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones or the pleasure of change as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well and the hope of being … Continue reading →

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‘In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favours. Note: A saying ascribed to Sir Robert Walpole by Hazlitt in his Wit and Humor: The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours is … Continue reading →

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‘What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.’

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‘We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.’

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