The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDEveryone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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