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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Francois de La Rochefoucauld?
→ To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
→ Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
→ The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
→ The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
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Pick the quote attributed to Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
→ Those who are of opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money.
→ Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
→ Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
→ To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
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Select the quotation attributed to Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
→ If you stop telling lies about us we will stop telling the truth about you.
→ Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
→ The only cure for grief is action.
→ The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
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One of these may be attributed to Francois de La Rochefoucauld. Which one?
→ True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
→ To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
→ The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
→ We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Which one of these belongs to Francois de La Rochefoucauld?
→ The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
→ How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
→ We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
→ My greatest skill has been to want but little.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Francois de La Rochefoucauld?
→ It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
→ Even the weak become strong when they are united.
→ It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
→ The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
→ Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
→ Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
→ A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
→ Great souls suffer in silence.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Francois de La Rochefoucauld. Which one?
→ The valiant never taste of death but once.
→ Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
→ If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
→ He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Francois de La Rochefoucauld?
→ Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
→ It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
→ Some remedies are worse than the disease.
→ He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
→ Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
→ Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
→ A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
→ Faint heart never won fair lady.
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Looks like Francois de La Rochefoucauld is the author of one of these.
→ Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
→ Please all, and you will please none.
→ That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
→ We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
→ Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.
→ We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
→ A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
→ The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
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Which one should be attributed to Francois de La Rochefoucauld?
→ No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
→ Study the past if you would define the future.
→ A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
→ If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Francois de La Rochefoucauld?
→ Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
→ To be deprived of the person we love is happiness in comparison to living with one we hate.
→ All wealth is the product of labor.
→ Logic is the anatomy of thought.
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Select the quote belonging to Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
→ There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
→ The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
→ Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
→ Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
→ The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
→ Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
→ The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
→ Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
→ Study the past if you would define the future.
→ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
→ A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
→ Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Francois de La Rochefoucauld?
→ Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
→ If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
→ All appears to change when we change.
→ A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Francois de La Rochefoucauld. Pick one.
→ As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition’s hands.
→ ‘Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
→ Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
→ If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Guess the right quote, which belongs to Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
→ Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
→ A man's character is his fate.
→ A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
→ Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.
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