Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFlattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOld men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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