“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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