Quotes By Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld