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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes: The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.
         

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.


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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.



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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.



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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.



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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.



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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.



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There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.





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