3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Women’s virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
