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Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.
— Francois Rabelais
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Every institution goes through three stages utility, privilege, and abuse.
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
— Francois Truffaut
To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.
— Francois De Malherbe
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Talent is nothing but long impatience.
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
It's not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe.
— Francois Hollande
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.
— Francois Hollande
Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.
— Francois Hollande
Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.
— Francois Mitterrand
Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
— Francois Hollande
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In order to have a good hand, it must be light, gentle, and firm.
— Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Organize one's values in the order of their worth
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Few men know all the ill they do.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
My dog is an atheist: he no longer believes in me.
— Francois Cavanna
A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
— Francois Rabelais
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The dream of every cell is to become two cells.
— Francois Jacob
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
— Francois Mauriac
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when than when too highly finished
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people.
— Francois Duvalier
428. - We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
— Francois Rabelais
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
— Francois Rabelais
In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.
— Jean Francois Revel
Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any ... ''You talk like a writer,' said Francois. — Charles Bukowski
What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
158. - Flattery is base coin to which only our vanity gives currency.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
— Francois Rabelais
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
God has your best interest! You'll get what He has designed for you. You are going to excel if you follow the path that he has placed in front of you.
— Terraine Francois
Appetite comes with eating ... but thirst goes away with drinking.
— Francois Rabelais
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.
— Jean-Francois Cope
To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You must be careful when you ask people whether they're happy; it's a question that can upset them a great deal.
— Francois Lelord
I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.
— Francois Rabelais
Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger ...
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Few people know how to be old.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There cannot be prosperity without security.
— Francois Hollande
Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.
— Francois Hollande
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi