Famous Quotes / Francois de La Rochefoucauld
458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 321. There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
- 322. There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does no ...
- 323. There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how su ...
- 324. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
- 325. There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortu ...
- 326. There may be virtue skill without position, but there is no position without some kind of virtue ski ...
- 327. These varied kinds of courage have this in common: darkness, by increasing fear and concealing both ...
- 328. Those faults are always pardonable that we have the courage to avow.
- 329. Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. Ridicule dishonors more than dishonor itself does ...
- 330. Those who apply themselves too closely to trifling things often become incapable of great things.
- 331. Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
- 332. Those who know their minds do not necessarily know their hearts.
- 333. Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
- 334. Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the result of any great desig ...
- 335. Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
- 336. Timidity is a fault that is dangerous to blame in those we desire to cure of it.
- 337. To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
- 338. To be a great man, one should know how to exploit advantages of every phase of chance.
- 339. To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are o ...
- 340. To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.