The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
Tag: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.