In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFuneral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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