458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 81. If we take the liberty to dwell on the faults of our friends and benefactors, we cannot long preserv ...
- 82. Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in ...
- 83. In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be seen as ...
- 84. In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe ...
- 85. In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those t ...
- 86. In great matters, we should not try to create opportunities as much as we should utilize those oppor ...
- 87. In growing old, we become more foolish and more wise.
- 88. In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.
- 89. In most men, the love of justice is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
- 90. In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
- 91. In the dealings of life, we please others more by our faults than by our good qualities.
- 92. In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the ...
- 93. In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
- 94. Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
- 95. Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul that raises it above the troubles, disorders, and e ...
- 96. It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It i ...
- 97. It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
- 98. It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
- 99. It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
- 100. It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes by Power Quotations
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