The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
- Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
- We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
- However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
- It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
- The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
- Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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