“People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.”
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Famous Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
“People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”
“Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.”
“The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.”
“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”
“Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.”
“Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.”
“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.”
“If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.”
“Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.”
“It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular”
“We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.”
“What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.”
“Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.”
“Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.”
“People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.”
“Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.”
“In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.”
“There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.”
“Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.”