780 ordspråk av François de la Rochefoucauld
François de la Rochefoucauld
We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love
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We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier
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We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.
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We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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We only admit to minor faults to persuade ourselves that we have no major ones
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We only appreciate our good or evil in proportion to our self-love.
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We own to small faults to persuade others that we have not great ones.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears
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We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spite of the number of our years, we lack experience.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them
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We should earnestly desire but few things if we clearly knew what we desired.
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