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• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and ca

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.