François de La Rochefoucauld

François de La Rochefoucauld

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
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"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"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."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"No 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."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
François de La Rochefoucauld
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