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François de La Rochefoucauld quotes - page 5
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
François de La Rochefoucauld
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
François de La Rochefoucauld
It is never so difficult to speak as when we are ashamed of our silence.
François de La Rochefoucauld
It is useless to be young without being beautiful, or beautiful without being young.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.
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
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
François de La Rochefoucauld
In all professions we affect a part and an appearance to seem what we wish to be. Thus the world is merely composed of actors.
François de La Rochefoucauld
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
François de La Rochefoucauld
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
François de La Rochefoucauld
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Why 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?
François de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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