It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
- We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
- It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
- We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
- Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
- What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
- 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.
- Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
- Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
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