"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." -la Rochefoucauld.

真真的爱犹如幽灵一样。大家都在说，但却很少看到。(拉·罗什富科德)。

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I think it was La Rochefoucauld who said that most people would never fall in love if they hadn't read about it.

我记得拉罗什富科说过，大多数人如果没有读过关于爱情方面的书，他们就不会恋爱；

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Do nice things for that person. "we prefer to see those to whom we do good than those who do good to us," as La Rochefoucauld observed.

为那个人做好事。拉罗什福科曾说过：“我们更喜欢看到那些被我们给与善举的人，而不是为我们做善举的人”。

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The French wise man La Rochefoucauld said that we are never as happy or as unhappy as we think we are.

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The shooting took place at the La Rochefoucauld school.

BBC: Paris primary school shooting: Man kills himself

Hypocrisy might be, as La Rochefoucauld had it, the tribute vice pays to virtue, but it is also by far the most entertaining vice for the rest of us, if not for the practitioner.

BBC: Finding joy in the hypocrisy of others