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Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld - 2

This is page 2 of famous quotes by the French noble and writer, Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

You are never so easily fooled as when you are trying to fool someone else.

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.

We are never made as ridiculous through the qualities we have as through those we pretend to.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they had no good in them.

The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendour, number, and excess.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not fooled by one another.

A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom satisfied with others.

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A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

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