3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
