In the misfortune of our best friends we often find something that is not displeasing.

Dans l'adversite de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne noux deplait pas.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Schadenfreude Friends

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld

Source

Reflections

Medium

Epigram

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

Occupation

Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Nature abhors a vacuum.

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Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 1, prop. 15, note.

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Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 1, prop. 15, note.

Another quote about Friends

We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
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Language
English
Time
1879 1870s 19th century
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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879.

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Censorship is crucial for preserving morals but useless for restoring them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Genre
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French
Time
1762 1760s 18th century
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Age of Enlightenment
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 4, ch. 7.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 4, ch. 7.