"It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular."
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Men
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "Most people know no other way of judging men’s worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
- "Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect."
- "It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
More In Men
- "I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots."― William Butler Yeats
- "If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other’s nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."― Havelock Ellis
- "I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability."― Confucius