A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he...

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he...

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of...

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of...

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

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

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

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate...

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate...

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive...

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive...

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make...

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make...

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think...

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think...

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words,...

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words,...

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us...

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us...

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but...

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but...

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love...

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love...

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel...

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel...