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"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, More quotation on Friendship. |
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"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, More quotation on Listening. |
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"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld. |
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"Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld. |
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"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, More quotation on Advice. |
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"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, More quotation on Gratitude. |
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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, More quotation on Life. |
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"If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld. |
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"It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld. |
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"Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld. |