We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle
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Those who appear gentle are, in genera... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have ha... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have suffic... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail, FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet ... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are heroes in evil as well as in good. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hope and fear are inseparable. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this g... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more o... 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 often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either cease... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is not enough to succeed, others must fail. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In jealousy there is more of self-love than love. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourse... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favours. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few good women who do not tire of their role. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who h... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already posses... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD