780 ordspråk av François de la Rochefoucauld
François de la Rochefoucauld
Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.
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Envy is destroyed by true friendship, flirtation by true love.
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
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Every great action is extreme.
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Everyone blames his memory; no one blames his judgment
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Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
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Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.
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Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his head
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Extreme avarice is nearly always mistaken, there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future.
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Falsely honest men are those who disguise their faults both to themselves and others; truly honest men are those who know them perfectly and confess them.
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Fancy does not enable us to invent so many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
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Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at each thing our imagination presents, and hinders us from at first discerning which is the best.
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Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.
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