458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 381. We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
- 382. We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
- 383. We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.
- 384. We easily forget the faults that are known only to ourselves.
- 385. We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.
- 386. We find very few ungrateful people when we are able to confer favors.
- 387. We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
- 388. We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.
- 389. We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
- 390. We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that th ...
- 391. We have more strength than will; and when we say things are impossible, it is often just excuses we ...
- 392. We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame shou ...
- 393. We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
- 394. We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
- 395. We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
- 396. We need greater virtues to sustain good fortune than bad.
- 397. We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
- 398. We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
- 399. We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obs ...
- 400. We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
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