Famous Quotes / Francois de La Rochefoucauld
458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 181. Our actions are like the rhymed ends of blank verses, where each one can be put in a way to mean wha ...
- 182. Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
- 183. Our acts of betrayal are more from weakness than from a fixed motive.
- 184. Our desire and urge to be praiseworthy of others strengthens our own good qualities; and praise that ...
- 185. Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet ...
- 186. Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
- 187. Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourse ...
- 188. Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.
- 189. Our evil actions do not attract as much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
- 190. Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
- 191. Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to ...
- 192. Our subtlest act of cleverness is to simulate that we is not aware of traps that we know are set up ...
- 193. Our virtues are usually just disguised vices.
- 194. Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
- 195. Passion often makes the cleverest man foolish, and sometimes even makes the most foolish man clever.
- 196. Passions are the only orators to always convince us.
- 197. Perfect bravery and total cowardice are two extremes that are rarely found. The space between them i ...
- 198. Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking ...
- 199. Perfect valor is to do without any witnesses what one would do before the entire world.
- 200. Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.