Taste may change, but inclination never.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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