Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSome accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFuneral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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 ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe intellect is always fooled by the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDVirtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPeople’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDEveryone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSilence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDA man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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