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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver’s pride and the receiver’s cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)