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Friendship Is Only A Reciprocal Conciliation Of Interests, And An Exchange Of Good Office
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Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an
exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which
self-love always expects to gain something.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
-- Maxim 83
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Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good office
it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something. (Maxim 83)...
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received
it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love....
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The understanding is always the dupe of the heart.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 102...
We pardon in the degree that we love.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 330...
The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 78...
The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 416...
Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 212...
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 496...