Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDDecency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDLove often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur 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.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are heroes in evil as well as in good.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDBefore we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFlattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe pardon to the extent that we love.
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 ROCHEFOUCAULDTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThough 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 ROCHEFOUCAULDHeat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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