Duc De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favours.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
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Civility is a desire to receive civility, and to be accounted well-bred
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Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
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Biography

French moralist, 1613-80