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In love we often doubt what we most believe.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Believe Doubt Love Most Often

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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Dead Funeral Honor Living More Than Vanity

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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Advice Liberal Most One Thing People The One Thing Thing

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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Advice Cannot Give Profit We Cannot Wisdom

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Age Death Old Old Age Pain Pleasures Tyrant Who Youth

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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: About Agreeable Conversation Each Few Few People He More Others People Reason Say Saying Than Thinking Why

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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Faults Had Much Noticing Others Our Own Pleasure Should Take Those

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Usually we praise only to be praised.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Only Praise Praised

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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Big Big Ones Confess Faults Little Only Our People Persuade

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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Adopt Any Course Distrust Himself Man Safest Silence Who

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1613

Died: March 17th, 1680

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