When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
-
-
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD