François de La Rochefoucauld
"One forgives to the degree that one loves."
118 Quotes
"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power"
François de La Rochefoucauld
"Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it."
François de La Rochefoucauld
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