However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
- To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
- Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
- Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
- We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
- It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
- There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
- There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
- We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
- Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
- Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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