Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThough men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSome accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere 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.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDConfidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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