Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld : French Writer
Born: September 15, 1613
Died: March 17, 1680
Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to s…
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. Char…
What a person feels within themselves and about themselves r…
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have …
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody …
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at o…
Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to s…
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. Char…
What a person feels within themselves and about themselves r…
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have …
The English expression ‘to fall asleep’ is apt because the t…
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and …
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody …
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for eve…
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at o…
Today’s average American is more apt to rebel against a tenn…
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny …
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on t…
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at thei…
I’ve seen women who don’t have great relationships with thei…
No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe thei…
Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick thei…
Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve thei…
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let thei…
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury thei…
In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in thei…
