Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Appearance
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In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
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The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
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The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
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Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.
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In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.
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We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
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No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.
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To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
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A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.
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Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
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The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.
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In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author