780 ordspråk av François de la Rochefoucauld
François de la Rochefoucauld
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear
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Love, though so very agreeable, pleases more by its ways than by itself.
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Lovers are never tired of each other,—they always speak of themselves.
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Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
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Luck and temper rule the world.
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Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe that they are right when fortune backs up their vice or folly.
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Magnanimity despises all, to win all.
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Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
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Man's joy or sorrow depends as much upon his disposition as upon his fate
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Man's merit, like the crops, has its season.
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Many people despise, but few know how to bestow wealth.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other.
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