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Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maxims, 1665
The passions are the only orators that always persuade.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
The passions often engender their contraries.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
The defects and faults in the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

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