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Inspirational Quotes by François Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Index_card_top “Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.”
 
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld  (1613-1680);
Writer, Moralist
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Index_card_top “One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
 
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld  (1613-1680);
Writer, Moralist
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Index_card_top “Hope, deceitful though it be, is at least of this good use to us that while we are traveling through this life, it conducts us by an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.”
 
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld  (1613-1680);
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Index_card_top “He that has patience may compass anything.”
 
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld  (1613-1680);
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Index_card_top “Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.”
 
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld  (1613-1680);
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Index_card_top “Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.”
 
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld  (1613-1680);
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Index_card_top “It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.”
 
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld  (1613-1680);
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Index_card_top “The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”
 
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld  (1613-1680);
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