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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.
Jean de La Bruyère
Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.
François de La Rochefoucauld
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.
Jean de La Bruyère
To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.
Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
François de La Rochefoucauld
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
François de La Rochefoucauld
There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.
Jean de La Bruyère
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
François de La Rochefoucauld