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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Advice Bad Console Examples Fond Give Giving Good Good Advice Inability Men Old Old Men Themselves

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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Always Everything Excuse Had Impossible Lead Means Merely Nothing Nothing Is Impossible Often Say Should Sufficient Things Ways Will

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Adjustment Arrangement Business Derive Friendship Given Interchange Interests Involved Men Mutual Only Own Profit Propose Received Self-Love Services Simply Social Steady Sum Those Which

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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Deal Faculty Few Great Great Deal Great Minds Lesser Minds Much Nothing Saying Talent Talking Words

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The heart is forever making the head its fool.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Fool Forever Head Heart Making

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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Air Certain Depend Distinguishes Does Elevation Fortune Great Great Things Kind Ourselves Price Seems Set Things Us Which

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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Only Should Some Some Things Still Surprise The Only Thing Thing Things Us

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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Affair Any Find Had Indeed Love Love Affair Never Only Rare Who Women

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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Always Fooled Heart Intellect

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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Becomes Foolish Grows More Older Wiser

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1613

Died: March 17th, 1680

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