Famous Quotes / Francois de La Rochefoucauld
458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 21. Before desiring something passionately one should inquire into the happiness of the man who possesse ...
- 22. Before strongly desiring anything, we should examine the happiness of those who already posses it.
- 23. Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already poss ...
- 24. Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.
- 25. Behind many acts that many thought ridiculous, there lie many wise and weighty motives.
- 26. Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
- 27. Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
- 28. Chance makes our virtues or our vices visible just as light does to objects.
- 29. Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
- 30. Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
- 31. Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
- 32. Doing wrong to others is often less dangerous than doing them too much good.
- 33. Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
- 34. Even when a man acts ungrateful, it is often his benefactor who is more deserving of being labeled a ...
- 35. Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
- 36. Excessive hurriedness to fulfill an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
- 37. Falsely honest men are those who disguise their faults to both themselves and others; truly honest m ...
- 38. Fertility of mind is not what gives us with so many resources on the same matter. In fact, It is the ...
- 39. Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others ...
- 40. Few people know how to be old.