3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We are all strong enough to bear other men’s misfortunes.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
