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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
- A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others,...
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to...
- A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about...
- Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans...
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the...
- Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a...
- Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark...
- All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. ...
- Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess...
- Conceit causes more conversation than wit. ...
- Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's...
- Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ...
- Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment. ...
- For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice. ...
- Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ...
- Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope. ...
- How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself? ...
- How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often...
- However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ...
- If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss....
- If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. ...
- If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship. ...
- If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. ...
- If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength. ...
- It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. ...
- It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it....
- It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows...
- Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. ...
- Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. ...
- One forgives to the degree that one loves. ...
- One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one thinks. ...
- Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion...
- Our minds are lazier than our bodies. ...
- Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. ...
- Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. ...
- Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ...
- Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error...
- The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth. ...
- The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice. ...
- The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks. ...
- The mind cannot long act the role of the heart. ...
- The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than...
- The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others. ...
- There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love...
- There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it; nor any so...
- There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does...
- Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things. ...
- To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its...
- True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. ...
- We are all strong enough to endure the misfortunes of others. ...
- We are never so happy or unhappy as we think. ...
- We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be. ...
- We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs...
- We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. ...
- We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us. ...
- We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us. ...
- Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others. ...
- When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. ...
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