François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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The accent of one's birthplace lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We are often more treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
François de La Rochefoucauld
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
François de La Rochefoucauld
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
François de La Rochefoucauld
A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.
François de La Rochefoucauld
If we had no defects, we should not take so much pleasure in discovering those of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Men would not live long in social contact unless they were deceived by one another.
François de La Rochefoucauld