François de La Rochefoucauld: Citáty v angličtine (page 3)

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“The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Le mal que nous faisons ne nous attire pas tant de persécution et de haine que nos bonnes qualités.
Maxim 29.
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“The desire to appear clever often prevents one from being so.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Le désir de paraître habile empêche souvent de le devenir.
Maxim 199.
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“Only firm people can be truly soft.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Il n'y a que les personnes qui ont de la fermeté qui puissent avoir une véritable douceur.
Variant translation: It is only those who are firm who can be genuinely kind.
Maxim 479.
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“We may bestow advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct.”

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Variant translation: We give advice but do not inspire behavior.
Maxim 378.
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“Although all the qualities of mind may be united in a great genius, yet there are some which are special and peculiar to him; his views are unlimited; he always acts uniformly and with the same activity; he sees distant objects as if present; he comprehends and grasps the greatest, sees and notices the smallest matters; his thoughts are elevated, broad, just and intelligible. Nothing escapes his observation, and he often finds truth in spite of the obscurity that hides her from others. A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.”

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Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), II. On Difference of Character

“It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.”

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Maxim 56 from the posthumously published 1693 edition of the Maximes.
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“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Nous pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux que nous ennuyons.
Maxim 304.
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“We pardon to the extent that we love.”

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Maxim 330.
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“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power.”

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Nul ne mérite d’être loué de bonté, s’il n’a pas la force d’être méchant: toute autre bonté n’est le plus souvent qu’une paresse ou une impuissance de la volonté.
Maxim 237.
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“The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

L'intention de ne jamais tromper nous expose à être souvent trompés.
Maxim 118.
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“Though the gifts of the mind are infinite, they can, it seems to me, be thus classified. There are some so beautiful that everyone can see and feel their beauty. There are some lovely, it is true, but which are wearisome. There are some which are lovely, which all the world admire, but without knowing why. There are some so refined and delicate that few are capable even of remarking all their beauties. There are others which, though imperfect, yet are produced with such skill, and sustained and managed with such sense and grace, that they even deserve to be admired.”

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Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), II. On Difference of Character

“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

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Le vrai moyen d'être trompé, c'est de se croire plus fin que les autres.
Maxim 127.
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“Though sincerity and confidence have many points of resemblance, they have yet many points of difference. Sincerity is an openness of heart, which shows us what we are, a love of truth, a dislike to deception, a wish to compensate our faults and to lessen them by the merit of confessing them.”

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Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), I. On Confidence

“It is a great folly to wish to be wise alone.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

C'est une grande folie de vouloir être sage tout seul.
Maxim 231.
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“Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu.
Maxim 218.
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“If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Si on juge de l'amour par la plupart de ses effets, il ressemble plus à la haine qu'à l'amitié.
Maxim 72.
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“In friendship and in love, one is often happier because of what one does not know than what one knows.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Dans l'amitié comme dans l'amour on est souvent plus heureux par les choses qu'on ignore que par celles que l'on sait.
Variant translation: In friendship as in love, we are often happier due to the things we are unaware of than the things we know.
Maxim 441.
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“Who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.
Maxim 209.
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“It is useless to be young without being beautiful, or beautiful without being young.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Il ne sert à rien d'être jeune sans être belle, ni d'être belle sans être jeune.
Maxim 497.
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“We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.”

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François de La Rochefoucauld kniha Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Nous essayons de nous faire honneur des défauts que nous ne voulons pas corriger.
Maxim 442.
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