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“It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld · Men

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Love

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Best

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Peace

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Nature