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Francois de La Rouchefoucauld: All Quotations: |
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
It takes great cleverness to be able to conceal one's cleverness.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld , Duc de La Rouchefoucald
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld - Maxims, 1665
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld , Duc de La Rouchefoucald
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld , Duc de La Rouchefoucald
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld , Duc de La Rouchefoucald
Weakness of character is the only defect that cannot be amended.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld , Duc de La Rouchefoucald
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
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