780 ordspråk av François de la Rochefoucauld
François de la Rochefoucauld
Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Perfect virtue is to do unwitnessed that which we should be capable of doing before all the world
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
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Perseverance is not deserving of blame or praise, as it is merely the continuance of tastes and feelings which we can neither create or destroy.
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past and over future evils, but present evils triumph over philosophy
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Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall. We help others that on like occasions we may be helped ourselves, and these services which we render, are in reality bene
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Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble
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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
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Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts
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Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts
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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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President Bush uses a lot of broad language and imagery when he speaks. It makes him sound determined and decisive, but when you get behind that facade and look at the actions, you see flip-flop. Make no mistake about it, George W. Bush knows exactly what flip-flopping is. It takes one to know one.
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Pride as the other passions has its follies. We are ashamed to own we are jealous, and yet we plume ourselves in having been and being able to be so.
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