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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

384. Nothing should astonish us except the fact that we are still capable of being astonished.

Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

383. The wish to talk about ourselves, and to show our faults from the angle we ourselves would choose, makes up a large part of our sincerity.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

382. Our deeds are like rhyming words, which anyone can fit to any subject he likes.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

381. The self-inflicted injuries we undergo to remain faithful to our love are scarcely better than acts of infidelity.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

380. Fortune reveals our virtues and vices, just as light reveals objects.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

379. When our merits sink, our tastes sink too.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

379. When our merits sink, our tastes sink too.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

378. People give advice, but they do not influence anyone's conduct.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

377. The greatest fault of penetration is not that it falls short of the target, but that it goes past it.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

376. Envy is destroyed by true friendship, and coquetry by true love.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

375. Mediocre minds usually condemn whatever is beyond their grasp.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

374. If you think you love your beloved for her own sake, you are very much deceived.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

373. There are certain kinds of tears which often deceive us ourselves, after having deceived others.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

372. Most young people think they are being natural when they are merely being uncivil and uncouth.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

371. It is almost always the fault of those who love, not to realise when they are no longer loved.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

370. Very few cowards always know the full extent of their fears.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

369. The self-inflicted injuries we undergo to prevent ourselves falling in love are often more brutal than the cruelties of those we love.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

366. However we may mistrust the sincerity of those who talk to us, we always think they are more truthful with us than with other people.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

363. Injuries done to others often cause us less pain than those that we do to ourselves.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

361. Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

360. People are discredited much more, in our eyes, by the slight infidelities they do to us, than by the greater ones they do to other people.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

359. Infidelities ought to extinguish love, and we should never be jealous when we have good reason to be. Only people who avoid giving any cause for jealousy are worthy to inspire it.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

358. Humility is the true test of the Christian virtues: without it, we retain all our faults, and they are merely covered by pride, which hides them from other people and often ourselves.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

357. Little minds are too easily wounded by little things; great minds see all such things without being wounded by them.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

356. We usually bestow wholehearted praise only on those who admire us.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

355. Some people when we lose them, are missed more than lamented; and others are lamented but scarcely missed.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

354. There are certain faults which, well displayed, shine more brightly than virtue itself.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

353. In love, a man of honour may be mad, but not foolish.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

352. We are nearly always bored with the people with whom it is not permitted to be bored.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

351. It is very hard to break with someone, when you no longer love each other.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

350. What makes us so bitter against people who act cunningly is the fact that they think they are cleverer than we are.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

349. Love's greatest miracle is to cure coquetry.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

348. When we are in love, we often doubt what we most believe.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

347. We find very few sensible people except those who agree with our own opinion.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

345. Circumstances reveal our nature to other people, and still more to ourselves.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

344. Most men, like plants, have hidden characteristics which are revealed by chance.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

343. To be a great man, you must know how to take advantage of every turn of fortune.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

342. The accent of our native land remains in our mind and heart, as it does in our speech.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

341. The passions of youth are scarcely more opposed to salvation than the lukewarmness of old age is.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

339. We feel our good and bad fortune only in proportion to our self-love.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

338. When our hatred is too intense, it puts us on a lower level than those we hate.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

337. Certain good qualities are like physical senses: people who lack them altogether can neither perceive nor understand them.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

336. There is a certain kind of love which is so extreme that it prevents jealousy.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

335. In love, deceit nearly always outruns mistrust.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

331. It is harder to be faithful to your beloved when you are happy than when you are ill-treated by her.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

329. We sometimes think we hate flattery, but what we hate is merely the way it is done.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

327. We confess small faults only to convince people that we have no greater ones.

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