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François VI de La Rochefoucauld. The most famous aphorisms

Only those who deserve it are afraid of contempt.
Most honest women are hidden treasures that are intact only because no one has yet searched for them.
There are successful marriages, but there are no delightful marriages.
Being young but ugly is just as disappointing as being beautiful but not young.
In great deeds, one should try not so much to create events as to use those that are presented.
In friendship and love we are often happier with what we do not know than with what we know.
There are more flaws in a man's character than in his mind.
Generosity neglects everything in order to take possession of everything.
The greatest of all flatterers is self-love.
Loyalty, which can only be maintained at the cost of great effort, is no better than treason.
The one who thinks that he loves his mistress only for her love for him is very mistaken.
A woman in love is more likely to forgive a big indiscretion than a small infidelity.
Lovers do not miss each other because they always talk only about themselves.
Temperance in food is born either by concern for health, or by the inability to eat much.
Everything secret sooner or later becomes apparent.
A genius does not have years - he overcomes everything that stops ordinary minds.
Pride often stirs up envy in us, and that same pride often helps us deal with it.
Democracy is dying not because of the weakness of the laws, but because of the weakness of the democrats.
As long as we love, we can forgive.
If we judge love by its usual manifestations, then it is more like enmity than friendship.
A woman remains faithful to her first lover for a long time, unless she takes a second one.
Most women are so indifferent to friendship because it seems to them insipid in comparison with love.
Evil, like good, has its heroes.
Sometimes it is not so painful for us to submit to the coercion of others, as to force ourselves to something.
Other virtues are like sight or hearing: people deprived of these virtues are not able to see and appreciate them in others.
Some people fall in love just because they have heard about love.
True love is like a ghost: everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
No matter how pleasant love is, yet its external manifestations give us more joy than love itself.
As soon as a fool praises us, he no longer seems so stupid to us.
Whatever praises may be lavished upon us, we find nothing new in them.
When a woman falls in love for the first time, she loves her lover, later on she loves only love.
Coquetry is the basis of the character of all women, but not everyone uses it, because for some it is restrained by fear or reason.
It is much more useful to study not books, but people.
Easy virtue is the least disadvantage of women of easy virtue.
It is easier to know people in general than one person in particular.
Deprived of insight are not those people who do not reach the goal, but those who pass it by.
Love is one, but there are thousands of fakes for it.
Love is best compared with a fever: the severity and duration of one and the other do not in the least depend on our will.
People who are not envious are even rarer than those who are disinterested.
People often cheat on love for the sake of ambition.
There are few women in the world whose virtues outlive their beauty.
The world is ruled by fate and whim.
You can find women who have never had lovers, but it is difficult to find those who would have only one.
We enter different ages of our lives like newborns, with no experience behind us, no matter how old we are.
We cannot fall in love again with those whom we once really stopped loving.
We do not despise those who have vices, but those who have no virtues.
We can only love that which we cannot do without.
True friendship does not know envy, and true love does not know coquetry.
The inaccessibility of women is one of their outfits and attire to enhance their beauty.
There is nothing more stupid than the desire to always be smarter than everyone else.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at point-blank.
No amount of pretense will help to hide love for a long time when it is, or to portray it when it is not.
Usually happiness comes to the happy, and unhappiness to the unfortunate.
It is equally difficult to please someone who loves very much, and someone who no longer loves at all.
With age, people become both dumber and smarter at the same time.
The ostentatious simplicity is a refined hypocrisy.
Sometimes bad qualities make great talents.
A decent woman is a treasure hidden from everyone, having found it, a reasonable person will not boast about it.
A jealous wife is sometimes even pleasant to her husband: at least he always hears talk about the object of his love.
The most bizarre recklessness is usually the offspring of the most refined mind.
Old age is hell for women.
The severity of temper in women is white and rouge, with which they set off their beauty.
Fate is considered blind mainly by those to whom it does not bestow good luck.
Only great people have great vices.
Vanity, shame, and most importantly, temperament - this is what usually underlies male prowess and female virtue.
Praise avoidance is a request to repeat it.
The mind of most women serves not so much to strengthen their prudence, but to justify their recklessness.
Smart is not the one whom chance makes smart, but the one who understands what the mind is, knows how to recognize it and admires it.
Good taste speaks not so much of intelligence as of clarity of judgment.
The chastity of women is for the most part simply concern for a good name and peace.
The more we love a woman, the more we tend to hate her.

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