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There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Advice Generous Men Nothing

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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Affection Effects Hatred Judge Love Most Rather Resembles Than

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Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Advantage Converts Everything Favorites Fortune Her

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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Bear Least Men Than Those Wrong

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We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Affect Easily Faults Forgive Friends Our Ourselves Those Us

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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Away Being Constant Continue Fear Fire Hope Life Love More Motion Once Take Than Very Without You

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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Annoy Cannot Often Pardon Those Us We Cannot

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He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Chance He Judge Knows Man Pass Reason Taste True Who

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Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Good Good Things New Nothing Nothing New People People Say Say Tell Things Us Whatever

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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: First Kept Long Lover Made Offer Second While

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1613

Died: March 17th, 1680

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