François De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
François De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
3010No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
3989 Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
3549 In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be-and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
2853 One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
2231 True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
4147 It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
1914 We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation
3742 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.
1862 We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
4287 Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
3071 Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.
3725 How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.
2379 Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
4952 Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.
1831 A weakling is incapable of sincerity.
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