Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes
French Writer September 15, 1613 – March 17, 1680
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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