Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Evil Copy Share Image
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Agitation Copy Share Image
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absolutes Copy Share Image
“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Boredom Copy Share Image
No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Brain Copy Share Image
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Agree Copy Share Image
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Admiring Copy Share Image
Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Education Copy Share Image
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Delicate Copy Share Image
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Calm Copy Share Image
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ballads Copy Share Image
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Able Copy Share Image
There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ifs Copy Share Image
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Air Copy Share Image
“The defects of the mind are like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever… — François de la Rochefoucauld Psychology Copy Share Image
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
“We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Strength Copy Share Image
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence Copy Share Image
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cheating Copy Share Image
Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Break Copy Share Image
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Incapable Copy Share Image
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ifs Copy Share Image
