"What we cut off from our other..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.
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“The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.”
“Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.”
“When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.”
More on Faults
“A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.”
“Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.”
“It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”