No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
François de La RochefoucauldOur enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
François de La RochefoucauldThinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.
François de La RochefoucauldWe rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
François de La RochefoucauldHow can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
François de La RochefoucauldListening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
François de La RochefoucauldIt is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions: Every one talks of it, and scarcely any one has seen it
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
François de La RochefoucauldWe would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.
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