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1. "Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
2. "One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
3. "Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
4. "We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
5. "87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."—2 TIM. iii. 13.]" ~ François La Rochefoucauld
6. "To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
7. "He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
8. "Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
9. "We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
10. "In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
11. "If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
12. "A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
13. "He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
14. "Extreme boredom provides its own antidote." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
15. "We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
16. "It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
17. "Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
18. "No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong." ~ François La Rochefoucauld
19. "Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily." ~ François La Rochefoucauld

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