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"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
18+ Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A curated collection of 18 inspirational quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"One forgives to the degree that one loves."
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune."
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"In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors."
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"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
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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."
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"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
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"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."
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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."
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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."
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"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."
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"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."
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"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."
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"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."
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"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."
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"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."