"Instead of considering that the worst way..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.
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“The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.”
“Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.”
“Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.”
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“Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.”
“Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.”
“The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.”
More on Persuasion
“Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.”
“Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.”
“It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.”