Francois de La Rochefoucauld's Quotes

Francois de La Rochefoucauld's Quotes 143

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be...

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good,...

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to...

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our...

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or...

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity...

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then...

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as...

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives...

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind...

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power...

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

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