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Francois de la Rochefoucauld: top 300 quotes
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Fear (n.) is inseparable from hope... there is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
Taste (n.) is as alterable as character is unalterable.
Taste (n.) is that wherein happiness lies, not in the things.
Taste (n.) is less easily renounced by men than their interests.
Taste (n.) is a more sensitive subject than opinion. Our self-love makes it harder for our tastes to be condemned than our opinions.
Taste (n.) is what accounts for the strange fact that some people disgust us despite their merit while others please us despite their faults.
Taste (n.) is changed in youth by the warmth of its blood. Age retains its tastes by habit.
Love (n.) is inconsistent with prudence... in proportion as love increases, prudence decreases.
Love (n.) is an active penetration of the other person and an act of fusion, a union in which one knows the other, knows oneself, knows everybody and 'knows' nothing.
Love (n.) is but of one kind, but there are a thousand different imitations thereof.
Love (n.) is more like hatred than friendship if judged by most of its results.
Love (n.) is like a fever: We have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.
Love (n.) is like fire in that it cannot subsist without constant impulse... it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.
Love (n.) is one and the same in the original... but there are a thousand different copies of it.
Love (n.) , as it increases, prudence diminishes.
Love's (n.) constancy is only inconstancy confined to one object.
Love (n.) is a game of cat and mouse. Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
Love (n.) is that to which novelty is much like a bloom is to a fruit. It gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.
Love (n.) is a social construction. Some people would never have fallen in love at all if they had not heard there was such a thing.
Love (n.) is not a rational thing. The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
Love (n.) is not a rational thing. The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
Love (n.) is a thing whereby the more we love someone, the nearer we are to hating them.
Love (n.) is a thing where no disguise can long hide it where it does exist or simulate it for long where it does not.
Love (n.) is nearer vis-a-vis those who hate us than it is toward those who love us more than we wish.
Love (n.) sooner forgives great indiscretions than small infidelities.
Love (n.) , in its early youth, is in love with the lover, and later is in love with love.
Culture (n.) is not easy to shake off. The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Intelligence (n.) is ultimately about knowing how to value things just as they deserve.
Intelligence (n.) is a thing whereby the desire to seem so often keeps us from being so.
Praise (n.) is rarely done without self-interest.
Praise (n.) is done out of a wish to attract praise.
Praise (n.) is sometimes really slander, just as criticism is sometimes really praise.
Praise (n.) , when given to wit, valor, and beauty, tends to increase them.
Praise (n.) is beneficial to us, albeit indirectly, for the desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities.
Praise (n.) is given so readily to new comers into the world because of the envy we bear those who are established.
Praise (n.) is, in some sense, to share the great action that you praise.
Praise (n.) is only ever refused out of a desire to be praised a second time.
Praise (n.) is taken as the reward of merit by the one praised, and to the one praising, it serves to show his impartiality and knowledge.
Praise (n.) is our attempt to exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.
Eating (n.) is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
A Promise (n.) is always made according to our hopes and performed according to our fears.
Forgetting (n.) is easier for us when our crimes are known to none but ourselves.
Imitation (n.) is only good when it's poking fun at bad originals.