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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
However we may conceal our passions under the veil... there is always some place where they peep out (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The soul’s maladies have their relapses like the body’s. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)