The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe passions are the only orators which always persuade.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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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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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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