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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one’s ability (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)