Francois de La Rochefoucauld Zitate auf Englisch
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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