Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present...

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present...

There is more self-love than love in jealousy

There is more self-love than love in jealousy

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues...

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues...

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of...

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of...

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting....

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting....

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

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

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

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing...

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing...

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...

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.

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 men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to...

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to...

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember...

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember...