Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.
Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.
The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.
That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.
As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.
We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires ...
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.