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Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Moral Maxims and Reflections
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Sentences et Maximes Morales
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Love: Quotes and Passages from the Heart (B.C. Aronson)
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Reflections
The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.
FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Sentences et Maximes Morales
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