458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 1. A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects t ...
- 2. A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. Ou ...
- 3. A countless number of acts that appear foolish actually have secret motives that are very wise and w ...
- 4. A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain else where.
- 5. A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.
- 6. A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
- 7. A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with ...
- 8. A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
- 9. A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acqu ...
- 10. Ability wins us the appreciation of the true persons, and luck wins that of "the people."
- 11. Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a ...
- 12. Absence lessens small passions and increases great ones, just as the wind will blow out a candle but ...
- 13. All feelings have their distinct tone of voice, gestures and looks; and it is this harmony, as it is ...
- 14. All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
- 15. Almost all of our faults are more excusable than the means we take to hide them.
- 16. Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to them.
- 17. Although we don't have the courage to say that in general, we have no faults and our enemies have no ...
- 18. And there is another more general kind of discretion, for there is no man who does all he would have ...
- 19. As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the g ...
- 20. As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes by Power Quotations
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