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Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.


François de la Rochefoucauld

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One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we shou...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised befo...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one’s ability.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each o...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of whic...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One may outwit another, but not all the others.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans t...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we h...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an art...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about ac...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The only thing constant in life is change
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have ha...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD En la adversidad de nuestros mejores amigos siempre encontramos algo que no nos desagrada
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In jealousy there is more of self-love than love
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cann...
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselve...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The heart is forever making the head its fool.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD As in friendship so in love, we are often happier from ignorance than from knowledge.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindle...
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of ...
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is little better than infidelity.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We forgive so long as we love.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befal...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nous avons plus de paresse dans l'esprit que dans le corps.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 321.—We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 329.—We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery —we only dislike the method.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 469.—We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 437.—We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROUCHEFOUCAULD It is far easier to know men than to know man.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and ye...
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La ...
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already posses...
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad example...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Only the great can afford to have great defects.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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 g...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Few people know how to be old.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad exam...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortu...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we shou...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means,...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Fortune and humor govern the world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a grea...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in convers...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the geniu...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in genera...
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