Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWeakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
-
-
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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 -
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD