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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Men’s happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover’s being jealous (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another’s inconstancy (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)