780 ordspråk av François de la Rochefoucauld
François de la Rochefoucauld
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them
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Few persons on the first approach of age do not show wherein their body, or their mind, is beginning to fail.
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Few things are impossible in themselves; application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success
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Fights would not last, if only one side was wrong
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Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity.
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For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
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For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
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Fortune and humor govern the world.
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Fortune appears so blind to none as to those to whom she has done no good.
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Fortune makes visible our virtues or our vices, as light does objects.
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Fortune sometimes uses our faults to exalt us, and there are tiresome people whose deserts would be ill rewarded if we did not desire to purchase their absence.
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Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
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