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A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
— 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
Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.
— Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.
— 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
A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Few people know how to be old.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Hope and fear are inseparable.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.
— 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
There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.
— 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
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
— 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
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
— 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
We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.
— 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
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
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
— 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.
— 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 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
Few men know all the ill they do.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
— 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
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
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when than when too highly finished
— 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
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
Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.
— 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
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
To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.
— 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
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger ...
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld