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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) We have more indolence in the mind than in the body  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) A man does not please long when he has only species of wit  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) 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 Quotes) The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s’ennuient point d’etre ensemble; c’est qu’ils parlent toujours d’eux memes.]  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) However much we may distrust men’s sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person’s heart.  (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) In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) It is as easy to deceive one’s self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes) A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n’a pas assez d’etoffe pour etre bon.]  (Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes)
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