We often boast that we are never bored, yet we are so conceited that we
do not perceive how often we bore others.
-- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
do not perceive how often we bore others.
-- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Related:
- We always get bored with those whom we bore.
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Francois Duc de la... - Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy:
we do not easily believe beyond what we see. -- Francois... - We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason.
Francois Duc de la... - We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood
all the motives which produced them.
Francois Duc de la... - We are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine.
Francois duc la... - How it is that our memory is able to retain the least triviality
that happens to us,
and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have... - The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.
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Francois Duc de la... - We confess little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.
Francois Duc de la... - We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
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Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim...
