458 Quotations by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 121. It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
- 122. It would be beneficial for us to know what all our passions make us do.
- 123. It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
- 124. Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
- 125. Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion t ...
- 126. Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
- 127. Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in convers ...
- 128. Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all these little things and are ...
- 129. Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
- 130. Love is to the soul of him who loves, as what the soul is to the body that it animates.
- 131. Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, ...
- 132. Love, like fire, cannot continue to exist without continual motion; both cease to live so soon as th ...
- 133. Lovers do not wish to see the faults of their mistresses until their enchantment is at an end.
- 134. Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
- 135. Lucky people are usually bad players when it comes to correcting their faults; they always believe t ...
- 136. Magnanimity is a noble effort of pride that makes a man master of himself, to make him master of all ...
- 137. Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
- 138. Many politician-type people represent certain great and dazzling actions as if they were results of ...
- 139. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
- 140. Men and things each have their proper perspective. To judge some of them rightly, it is necessary to ...
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