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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.


François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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FRANÇOIS DE SALES Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 If I want only pure water, what...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to...
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANÇOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produ...
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before ...
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.
UNKNOWN Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.
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LUCILLE CLIFTON Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La ...
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD En la adversidad de nuestros mejores amigos siempre encontramos algo que no nos desagrada
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD En la amistad como en el amor se es más feliz por las cosas que se ignoran que por las que se saben...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish t...
DAN HARMON Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 Moderate bodily discipline is ...
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ROBIN S. SHARMA Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.
MIGUEL DELIBES Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of af...
JUVENAL Todo en ella es cautivante, como la consecuencia de una tormenta. No se supone que la gente obtenga ...
COLLEEN HOOVER Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 What is worst of all is to ad...
T. S. ELIOT Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
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W. H. AUDEN You don’t become the person you wish to become; you become the person you choose to become. True l...
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NATE TORRENCE La seguridad de la Fe vence a la duda de la Razón.
CRISTO LEON Quizá la vida no consiste en superar una serie de marcas de mierda.
JOHN GREEN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Lo importante es el camino, no la meta. No se trata solo del logro de algo increíble. Se trata del ...
KAREN BLUMENTHAL A veces nos vamos para tratar de encontrarnos. Al hacernos mayores nos perdemos. No sabemos qué hac...
ÁNGELA BECERRA It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to ac...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased wi...
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 Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to c...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment
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 The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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 violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it cease...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The only thing constant in life is change
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 The more one loves the mistress, the nearer one comes to hating her
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Fights would not last, if only one side was wrong
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The pleasure of love is in loving.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trif...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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SUSAN SONTAG The sad heart needs work to do.
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ANTONIO GUADARRAMA en realidad no importa que no esperemos nada de la vida, sino que la vida espere algo de nosotros. D...
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VICTOR HUGO A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority dis...
ELMER T PETERSON To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
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THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to...
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
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FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before ...
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to ac...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final aut...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased wi...
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 Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to c...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment
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 The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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 violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it cease...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The only thing constant in life is change
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 The more one loves the mistress, the nearer one comes to hating her
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Fights would not last, if only one side was wrong
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The pleasure of love is in loving.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trif...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous in...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Feast of Andrew the Apostle Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bittern...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal ...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Devotion is neither more nor less than a prompt, fervent, loving service to God. And the difference ...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 Our business is to love what G...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well ...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 We do not very often come across opportunities ...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES God, in a man who is made partaker of His nature, desireth and taketh no revenge for all the wrong t...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 Complain as little as possible...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 Moderate bodily discipline is ...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 A really patient man neither ...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and pr...
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FRANÇOIS DE SALES He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968 While extremely sensitive as to the...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 One great remedy agains...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES We never forgive those who make us blush.
JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE LA HARPE Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you. O, Father, give to your child what he himself knows ...
FRANÇOIS FENELON Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [Fr., D...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all pra...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vic...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles, Qui le suivirent toujours, Tant qu...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small inter...
FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr.,...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. [Fr., On est quelquefois un s...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.
FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.
FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du m...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison aus...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. [Fr., Le monde recompense pl...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the r...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One may outwit another, but not all the others. [Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de s...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. [Fr., Tou...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all t...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and f...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. [Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir ca...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is o...
FRANÇOIS-RENÉ DE CHATEAUBRIAND Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and y...
DUC DE LA ROUCHEFOUCAULD Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 Tell God ...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754 It ...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apost...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 God is our true Friend, who ...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; th...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we r...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabet...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942 There is a great diffe...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON "When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" If He should now come, would He find...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the hea...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence,...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON 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 One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
FRANçOIS 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...
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