Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld - Quotesmemo.com

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

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If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

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To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

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Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

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