780 ordspråk av François de la Rochefoucauld
François de la Rochefoucauld
There are persons fated to be fools, who commit follies not only by choice, but who are forced by fortune to do so.
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There are persons of whom the world approves who have no merit beyond the vices they use in the affairs of life.
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There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
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There are relapses in the diseases of the mind as in those of the body; what we call a cure is often no more than an intermission or change of disease.
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There are scarcely any who are not ashamed of being beloved, when they love no more themselves
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There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.
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There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.
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There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in knowing what others don’t know.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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There exists an excess of good and evil which surpasses our comprehension.
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There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits received, but which also, by making a return to our friends as payment, renders them indebted to us.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.
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There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability
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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
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