Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own ...

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld