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Quotations by author » François de la Rochefoucauld
French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680
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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
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It would be well for us if we knew all our passions make us do.
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It would seem that even self-love may be the dupe of goodness and forget itself when we work for others. And yet it is but taking the shortest way to arrive at its aim, taking usury under the pretext of giving, in fact winning everybody in a subtle and de
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It would seem that nature, which has so wisely ordered the organs of our body for our happiness, has also given us pride to spare us the mortification of knowing our imperfections.
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It would seem that our actions have lucky or unlucky stars to which they owe a great part of the blame or praise which is given them.
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It's a pity to turn our back on that very important ritual which is tragedy. It's a life-saver, a soul-saver.
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty
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Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it
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Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.
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Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one which arouses the least pity in the person who causes it
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Jealousy is the worst of all evils, yet the one that is least pitied by those who cause it.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
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Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.
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Let me put it this way, as a fan myself, and I'm talking a real hardcore Indiana Jones fan, the movie I wrote is the movie I wanted to see.
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Life is no more than a dramatic scene, in which the hero should preserve his consistency to the last.—Junius.]
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Like the newspapers dependent upon us for news, ours will be a business organization, collecting and distributing one of the world's most perishable products, news.
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Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
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