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You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.


François Lelord

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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pl...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those wh...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Paradise is Where I Am.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I die adoring God,loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to oursel...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
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 When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when the man who's speaking no lo...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divi...
FRANçOIS AUGUSTE RENé RODIN 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 Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a...
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.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy
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