Famous Quotes / Francois de La Rochefoucauld
458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 301. There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.
- 302. There are follies as catching as infections.
- 303. There are foolish people who know their folly and skillfully use it.
- 304. There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
- 305. There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.
- 306. There are more people without self-love than there are without envy.
- 307. There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and ...
- 308. There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their ...
- 309. There are people who the world approves of who have no virtue besides the vices they use in social l ...
- 310. There are relapses in the diseases of the mind just like those of the body; what we call a cure is o ...
- 311. There are some people who only disgust with their abilities; and there are some people who please ev ...
- 312. There are some troubles and maladies that at certain times are made worse by attempted cures; and th ...
- 313. There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each o ...
- 314. There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
- 315. There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have suffic ...
- 316. There are wicked people who would be much less dangerous if they were totally without goodness.
- 317. There is a certain kind of lively gratitude that not only releases us fro benefits we received, but ...
- 318. There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguish ...
- 319. There is a kind of greatness that does not depend upon fortune: it is a certain manner that distingu ...
- 320. There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.