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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes: We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
         

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.


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We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
         



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



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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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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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