Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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