We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhy 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?
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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