François de La Rochefoucauld

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François de La Rochefoucauld
François de La Rochefoucauld

I have observed men long enough to know that virtue and self-interest are rarely far apart. I write what I see.

François de La Rochefoucauld
·1665·Paris, France

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

François de La Rochefoucauld
·1665·Paris, France

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.