Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOld age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSome counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNeither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPassion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHow can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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?
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