Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
