Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes:
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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