| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. (1613–1680) (continued) |
| | | 9518 | | True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. |
| Maxim 76. |
| 9519 | | The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice. |
| Maxim 78. |
| 9520 | | Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself. |
| Maxim 79. |
| 9521 | | Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something. |
| Maxim 83. |
| 9522 | | A man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor. |
| Maxim 96. |
| 9523 | | The understanding is always the dupe of the heart. |
| Maxim 102. |
| 9524 | | Nothing is given so profusely as advice. |
| Maxim 110. |
| 9525 | | The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. |
| Maxim 127. |
| 9526 | | Usually we praise only to be praised. |
| Maxim 146. |
| 9527 | | Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence. |
| Maxim 180. |
| 9528 | | Most people judge men only by success or by fortune. |
| Maxim 212. |
| 9529 | | Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. |
| Maxim 218. |
| 9530 | | Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. |
| Maxim 226. |
| 9531 | | There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one’s ability. |
| Maxim 245. |
| 9532 | | The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire. 1 |
| Maxim 259. |
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