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She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.


Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz

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How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'
CARDINAL DE RETZ Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
CARDINAL DE RETZ A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
CARDINAL DE RETZ Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
CARDINAL DE RETZ A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
CARDINAL DE RETZ It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
CARDINAL DE RETZ A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
CARDINAL DE RETZ Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns
CARDINAL DE RETZ To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ...
DEYTH BANGER She knew how you went about falling in love; she did not know how you went about falling into trust.
JODI PICOULT The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real,...
GABOUREY SIDIBE Last year she was an average to an above-average setter. This year her setting has tremendously impr...
CATHERINE YOUNG Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leade...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The Slaying of Jean Charles de Menezes
RICHARD SEYMOUR Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns
CARDINAL RETZ A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
CARDINAL RETZ It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
CARDINAL RETZ A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
CARDINAL RETZ Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
CARDINAL RETZ The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's worl...
ALLEN ADAMSON To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
COLIN POWELL She was rare, few and far between
She suspected he would be as well
And the thought of two...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Everybody thinks they're above average. Obviously not everybody can be above average. Somebody has t...
DAVID DUNNING Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.
MICHAEL BERGDAHL The price for being above average is having a hard time finding people like yourself.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Andrew has an above average curve, a good change-up and he keeps his fast ball low so they don't hit...
CHRIS REILLY Cardinal Newman is a quality team with a lot of heart. This was a real good test for us.
ERIK KIMREY I knew such a woman once,
She gave me everything.
Her love like a soft riot singing,
...
SCOTT HASTIE If Mr De Niro knew how she treats his kids he would leave her. If she treated me with more respect I...
FRANK MAINIERO Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels,...
C. JOYBELL C. She never woke up until we put her back in the car. She was a character. Above all, she was just a s...
DIANE BIEGA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY We'll get a better handle about how can this company, in a non-growth environment ,can grow at an ab...
NICHOLAS HEYMANN They aimed initially to increase the per capita income to above the state average, to maintain a man...
JIM DAVIS He has solid, above-average receiving skills and is above-average in handling a pitching staff. He'l...
ALLARD BAIRD Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.
LORD BYRON It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Of course it's benefited from commodity prices, but it's growing organically well above average. The...
JOSEPH ALLMAN A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD The mathematics of networks means that most people will have fewer friends than average, while a sma...
WILLIAM DAVIES a rare blend of experience, skills, character and passion.
BRADLEY WILSON Being selfless isn't bad. It is a very rare quality.
M.B. MOHAN She impressed me because she knew even more than me about the character.
FERNANDO MEIRELLES Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
ROBERT SMITH If a fund's performance is mediocre, or the fund is having other troubles, average to above-average ...
BRIDGET HUGHES Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get ang...
CHANAKYA A person gets the people around oneself not by own desire or wish, but as who s/he character-wise is...
ANUJ SOMANY Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very discipline...
ERIKA SLEZAK If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He showed a lot of composure for a guy that hadn't pitched above A-ball. But we knew he had a good a...
BUCK MARTINEZ Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she neve...
GERMAINE GREER She knew it was consonant with his character to be the avenging angel.
SYLVAIN REYNARD One of the cardinal rules of office dating is, 'never date a direct report', meaning both those abov...
JULIANNE BALMAIN It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
FACUNDO PIERES We ended up slightly above normal, but it didn't rank anywhere as far as the warmest winter ... Just...
BRAD REHAK Sometimes she could swear that she saw, in Joe Grey's eyes, a judgment far too perceptive, a watchfu...
SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson...
JAMES ROSENQUIST We had a good turnout, I'm going to guess that it was above average.
JEAN GRANT There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
SOURCE UNKNOWN You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
Utilize pain to build a stronger quality of character.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust peo...
SUNDAY ADELAJA He's a player and a man of rare quality and he'll certainly be missed.
GREG COOPER Some see the widespread weakness outside transportation as discouraging. But orders are still runnin...
ZOLTAN POZSAR She was a composer, carefully orchestrating how much of herself she let people see. Some thought the...
LAUREN VALENCIA When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER At this stage it looks like this year's ozone hole will be quite average or maybe a little above ave...
GEIR BRAATHEN A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its char...
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE I'm right below above average intelligence.
KRIS HUEN I'm right above below average intelligence.
KRIS HUEN It's well above average this afternoon.
JENNIFER SCHACK People with a high vocabulary will often detect that they are having problems, ... but if you give t...
ANDY ELLIS I think we've had three years in a row of above-average rainfalls.
BRIAN DUPLESSIS The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
BLAISE PASCAL During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above av...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Obviously it's above average, or even superior.
PETER WALKER She told me, 'It's just sex,' ... She flew to London to let me know how interested she was in the pa...
FERNANDO MEIRELLES

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Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'
CARDINAL DE RETZ Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
CARDINAL DE RETZ A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
CARDINAL DE RETZ Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
CARDINAL DE RETZ A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
CARDINAL DE RETZ It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
CARDINAL DE RETZ A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
CARDINAL DE RETZ Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns
CARDINAL DE RETZ Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns
CARDINAL RETZ A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
CARDINAL RETZ It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
CARDINAL RETZ A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
CARDINAL RETZ Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
CARDINAL RETZ Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
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CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to con...
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
CARDINAL DE RETS Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU We never forgive those who make us blush.
JEAN-FRANCOIS DE LA HARPE We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. [Fr., On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagere.]
JEAN FRANCOIS DE LA HARPE I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
JEAN-FRANCOIS COPE The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be val...
JEAN FRANCOIS LYOTARD It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.
JEAN FRANCOIS REGNARD It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
JEAN FRANCOIS REGNARD A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modern...
JEAN FRANCOIS LYOTARD To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
JEAN FRANCOIS REGNARD Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a wes...
JEAN FRANCOIS LYOTARD Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, an...
JEAN FRANCOIS LYOTARD We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on...
JEAN FRANCOIS REGNARD We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
JEAN-FRANCOIS REGNARD Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of co...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the functi...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrat...
JEAN-FRANCOIS COPE Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]
JEAN FRANCOIS MARMONTEL Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have Frenc...
JEAN-FRANCOIS COPE Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and con...
JEAN FRANCOIS REVEL My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me. [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma...
JEAN FRANCOIS DUCIS What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
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JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
JEAN-FRANCOIS REGNARD Love without reason lasts the longest.
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JEAN MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.
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FRANCOIS DE SALES Whoever preaches with love preaches sufficiently against heresy, though he may never utter a controv...
FRANCOIS DE SALES Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights.
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FRANCOIS DE FENELON If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate...
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JEAN DE BOUFFLERS I woke up, smiling to myself at this dream with its allegorical aspects but with no real meaning.
JEAN DE BERG Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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CARDINAL MERMILLOD Growth is the only evidence of life.
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CARDINAL ZEN The final word should not be exclusively on the side of an atheist government.
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CARDINAL ZEN Only the Holy Father can decide which men are suitable. But if the government is worried about an ap...
CARDINAL ZEN But there will be time.
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CARDINAL RICHELIEU Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang hi...
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CARDINAL RATZINGER the unity that is required for the church's effective redemptive service in the world.
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CARDINAL RATZINGER [t]hose...who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.
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CARDINAL MAHONY The war on terror isn't going to be won through immigration restrictions.
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CARDINAL LOZANO We are dealing with human beings, and human beings always need something more than technically prope...
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CARDINAL LOZANO We must provide guidance on the various problems that face the world of health care today, from spec...
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CARDINAL ZEN I think it's quite obvious that our situation is urgent, is dire. The bleeding that's been going on ...
CARDINAL O'MALLEY If South Korea is able to host World Youth Day, we would naturally invite the pope to come, and it w...
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CARDINAL CARAFFA But it kept getting really, really sore every single day.
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BRIAN CARDINAL One (official) had one call, the other had another call. Who knows?
BRIAN CARDINAL Even with advance knowledge and awareness, and active participation in the process, there is no deny...
CARDINAL MAIDA We're not putting that before the Lord. We'll pray that everybody stays healthy, that we have a good...
CARDINAL MAIDA Doing what we please is not freedom is not liberty; rather it is the abuse of true liberty and freed...
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CARDINAL DZIWISZ It's as if the world stopped for that moment.
CARDINAL DZIWISZ I am not opposed to the specific clauses of the revision. I am rather concerned about today's educat...
CARDINAL CHEONG It has become more difficult to help the North, but we will continue to provide support.
CARDINAL CHEONG We made some key mistakes. Obviously we didn't play that counter play very well that went for a touc...
ERIC CARDINAL Obviously, if it becomes 17-6, it's a whole different ball game; there's no doubt about it.
ERIC CARDINAL There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper wh...
ROGER CARDINAL This train was on the track before the Board of Supervisors even voted on it in June.
LAURA CARDINAL They (the Board of Supervisors) ignored or glossed over that distinction.
LAURA CARDINAL A very, very small part of the area to be incorporated could be called a community. It's rural.
LAURA CARDINAL We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. -Francois.
FRANCOIS One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad example...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We were two and had but one heart between us.
FRANCOIS DE MONTCORBIER VILLON We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Only the great can afford to have great defects.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the g...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Few people know how to be old.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad exam...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortu...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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