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Famous Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Famous quotes by the French noble and writer, Francois de La Rochefoucauld. He was born on September 15, 1613 in paris, France and died March 17, 1680.

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To refuse praise is to seek praise twice.

We never confess our faults except through vanity.

We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so.

If we had no faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in noticing the faults of others.

He who is pleased with nobody is much more unhappy than he with whom nobody is pleased.

A person is never as happy or as unhappy as he thinks he is.

It takes much cleverness to know how to conceal cleverness.

There are people who would never have fallen in love if they had never heard of love.

Truth does not do so much good in the world as the appearance of it does evil.

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To a friend's house the road is never long.

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