We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDI 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 ROCHEFOUCAULDPassion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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?
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDConfidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDA refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDDecency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHowever rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn love we often doubt what we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTaste may change, but inclination never.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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