Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

François de la Rochefoucauld

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Tres clases hay de ignorancia: no saber lo que debiera saberse, saber mal lo que se sabe y saber lo que no debiera saberse.

François de la Rochefoucauld


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Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

François de la Rochefoucauld

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L'esprit est toujours la dupe du coeur.

François de la Rochefoucauld


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We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.

François de la Rochefoucauld


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Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

François de la Rochefoucauld


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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undecieved by them.

François de la Rochefoucauld

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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

François de la Rochefoucauld

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The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

François de la Rochefoucauld

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Nous avons plus de paresse dans l'esprit que dans le corps.

François de la Rochefoucauld


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