The best Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

The best Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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Jealousy Egoism

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Forgiveness & Mercy

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

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Heart Mind vs. Heart

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So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

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I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

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Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.

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Paris seems like a big city, but it's really just a small town.

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Of course, I love Paris. And the food is so delicious. The fashion, so chic. The lights, so magical. But the people, so mean.

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It's Paris. Everyone's serious about dinner.

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You haven't done Paris right until you've had at least one wildly inappropriate affair.

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What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

The Parisian has his amus*ments as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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Love Hurting Sad Quotes

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King

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Ghosts Monsters

More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.

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Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

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Friendship Blood

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

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Friendship Family

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

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It's not healthy to be jealous.

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If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

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Ambition Egoism

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

Stephen Colbert

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

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I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.

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Find what you love and let it kill you.

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If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.

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Hurting Passion

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Abraham Lincoln

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Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.

Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors... because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

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Progress Curiosity

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Forgiveness & Mercy

The only way out of this labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

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Forgiveness & Mercy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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Forgiveness & Mercy Enemies & Opponents Names

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

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Heart Heros Size

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Heart Seeing Romantic Quotes

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

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Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

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Heart Mind vs. Heart Head

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

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Falling in love Mind vs. Heart

Already I can see the chain reaction. The chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason.

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Feelings & Emotions Mind vs. Heart

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

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