"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self."
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
- "Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."
- "No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
More In Good
- "In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change."― Sarah Palin
- "I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time."― Bill Cosby
- "Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse."― John Derek