458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 61. How shall we hope that another person will keep our secret if we do not keep it ourselves?
- 62. However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
- 63. However we distrust the sincerity of those whom we talk with, we always believe them more sincere wi ...
- 64. However wicked men may be, they do not dare condemn virtue openly. Thus, when they want to attack vi ...
- 65. Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
- 66. Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
- 67. Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
- 68. I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary mo ...
- 69. Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.
- 70. Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.
- 71. If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
- 72. If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
- 73. If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
- 74. If there are men whose folly has never appeared, it is only because it has never been looked for clo ...
- 75. If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
- 76. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
- 77. If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
- 78. If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
- 79. If we never flattered ourselves, we should have but insufficient pleasure.
- 80. If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
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