To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.
Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.
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