458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 41. Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them ...
- 42. Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, ...
- 43. Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most me ...
- 44. Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
- 45. Folly follows us at all stages of life. If one appears wise, it is only because his folly is proport ...
- 46. Fortune and humor govern the world.
- 47. Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.
- 48. Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
- 49. Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- 50. Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
- 51. Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.
- 52. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- 53. Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who h ...
- 54. Happiness is in the taste, and not in things themselves; we are happy a possessing what we like, not ...
- 55. He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cann ...
- 56. He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.
- 57. Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
- 58. Hope and fear are inseparable.
- 59. Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this g ...
- 60. How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes by Power Quotations
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