The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving...

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving...

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition...

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition...

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

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

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...

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish...

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish...

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...

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

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

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 but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

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.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate...

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate...

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

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

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

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity...

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity...