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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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Bodily temperaments have a common course and rule which imperceptibly affect our will. They advance in combination, and successively exercise a secret empire over us, so that, without our perceiving it, they become a great part of all our actions.
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Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.
Play
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
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Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite.
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Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Reason
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Confidence
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.
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Costs merely register competing attractions.
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Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed
Law and lawyers
Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.
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Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.
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Envy is destroyed by true friendship, flirtation by true love.
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
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Every great action is extreme.
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Everyone blames his memory; no one blames his judgment
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Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
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