French author (1613-1680)
The only good copies are those that point out the ridicule of bad originals.
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We should manage our fortune as our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when 'tis bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity.
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Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
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Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.
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There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.
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What makes the vanity of others unsupportable is that it wounds our own.
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There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.
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We have no more control over the duration of our passions than we do over the duration of our life.
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Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.
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Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.
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Jealousy is always born with love, but doesn't always die with it.
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A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.
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A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.
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We may say, vices wait on us in the course of our life as the landlords with whom we successively lodge, and if we traveled the road twice over, I doubt if our experience would make us avoid them.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
attributed, Encyclopædia of Quotations: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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What seems like generosity is often but a disguised ambition, which overlooks little interests, in order to gratify great ones.
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The head can't long act the part of the heart.
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We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
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We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.
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Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.
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