Francois de La Rochefoucauld Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung
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Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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