"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."
- "It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."
- "True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
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- "There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."― R. D. Laing
- "You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."― James Lane Allen
- "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."― Ariel Durant