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Some bad qualities form great talents.
La Rochefoucauld
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Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt.
La Rochefoucauld
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Weak persons cannot be sincere.
La Rochefoucauld
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We find very few ungrateful people when we are able to confer favors.
La Rochefoucauld
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It is impossible to love a second time those whom we have really ceased to love.
—La Rochefoucauld
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Some disguised lies so resemble truth, that we should judge badly were we not deceived.
—La Rochefoucauld
#la rochefoucauld#philosophy#maxims#life truths#secrets and lies#judgement#deception#words words words#life lessons#words to ponder
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in a bonfire.
—La Rochefoucauld
#la rochefoucauld#philosphy#maxims#lovers#passion#relationship#friendship#love advice#love quotes#long distance relationship#words words words
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
—La Rochefoucauld
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A quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examined it, is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and we do not wish to trouble ourselves in examining the crime.
—La Rochefoucauld
#la rochefoucauld#philosophy#maxims#jumping to conclusions#words to ponder#examination#science#guilty guilty guilty#crime and punishment#laziness#pride
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Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others.
—La Rochefoucauld
#la rochefoucauld#philosphy#maxims#opportunism#submission#cunning#life lessons#sayings#words to ponder
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What seems generosity is often disguised ambition, that despises small to run after greater interest.
—La Rochefoucauld
#la rochefoucauld#philosophy#maxims#generosity#ambition#self interest#selfishness#selfish#opportunismus
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It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.
—La Rochefoucauld
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Coming out
Coming to terms with your gender identity is a liberating experience. But, I hope the day comes that coming out is no longer a thing. When, you are just you, like all straight people not coming out. People just assume it’s the default gender, I hope that the time comes, there will be none.
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Pride will not owe, self-love will not pay.
—La Rochefoucauld
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In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.
— La Rochefoucauld
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All those who pay the debts of gratitude cannot thereby flatter themselves that they are grateful.
—La Rochefoucauld
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There are people who are like farces, which are praised but for a time (however foolish and distasteful they may be).
—La Rochefoucauld
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