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 ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Our 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.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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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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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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