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If We Had No Defects Ourselves, We Should Not Take So Much Pleasure In Noting Those Of Others.
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If we had no defects ourselves, we should not take so much pleasure
in noting those of others.
-- La Rochefoucauld
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We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others.
-- Duc de La Rochefoucauld...
In the intercourse of life we please, often, by our defects than by our good qualities.
-- La Rochefoucauld...
We often boast that we are never bored, yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
-- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665...
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 259...
We often console ourselves for being unhappy by a certain pleasure in appearing so.
We always get bored with those whom we bore. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 19...
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 49...