"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Time
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."
- "There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices."
- "What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
More In Time
- "I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody."― Dolly Parton
- "I’m very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years’ time."― Freddie Mercury
- "Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you."― Friedrich Nietzsche