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“Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.”

Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

French author known for his wit and moral maxims. His works delve deeply into the flaws of human nature and the hypocrisy of society. more

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“When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.”

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“The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.”

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“Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.”

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“The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.”

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“We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.”

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“Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.”

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“Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.”

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“It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.”

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“Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.”

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“Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.”

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