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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Acting Being Having Head Inside Know Lighted Name Old People Perhaps Quite Rooms Them You Your

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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Being Born Envy Mark Noble Qualities Sure Without

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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Able Act Being Clever Cleverness Conceal Great

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People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Being Conceited Considerable Enough Envy Fortune Mark May Merit Others Own People Pride Take Them Themselves Think Unfortunate

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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Being Better Constantly Desiring Good Good Men His Man Men Observation Proof Than Truly

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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Almost Always Another Being Born Forever Heart Human Human Heart Means New Overthrow Passions Rise

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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Being Clever Desire Keeps Often Seem Us

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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Against Being Best Blockhead Cheated Man Security Sometimes Wit

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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Being Hinders Make Much Natural Nothing Ourselves Seem Thing

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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Being Boast Disposition Good Least Most Often Self-Interest Stifled Tender Urging Which

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