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CytatyFrancois de La RochefoucauldFrench author & moralist (1613 - 1680)A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. 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. Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines. Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty. Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range. No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. |
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