780 ordspråk av François de la Rochefoucauld
François de la Rochefoucauld
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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However we distrust the sincerity of those whom we talk with, we always believe them more sincere with us than with others.
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However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.
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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
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Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others. It is one of the devices of Pride to lower us to raise us; and truly pride transforms itself in a thousand ways, and is never so well disguised and more able to deceive than when i
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Humility is the true proof of Christian virtues; without it we retain all our faults, and they are only covered by pride to hide them from others, and often from ourselves.
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Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue
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I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.
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I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.
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I don't have a head full of ideas I'm dying to write.
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I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
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I haven't been in most movies because I was so focused on theatre but I would love to be part of a well-funded ensemble.
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I knew I had to go to college... Just as I HAD to come to the States, just as I HAD to write this book. I don't know what I HAVE to do next.
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I mean, when I was a kid, I was into Star Trek and science fiction and horror and I loved monsters.
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