Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Pain
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.
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If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author
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