Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Failing
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We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.
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There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.
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The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
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It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author