Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason — François De La Rochefoucauld Fever Copy Share Image
Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Delusion Copy Share Image
Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Chance Copy Share Image
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Offensive Copy Share Image
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Battle Copy Share Image
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Be humble Copy Share Image
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Funeral Copy Share Image
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Condemn Copy Share Image
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Believe Copy Share Image
The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Appearance Copy Share Image
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Constant Copy Share Image
What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Difficult Copy Share Image
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Calm Copy Share Image
Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Concern Copy Share Image
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Dangerous Copy Share Image
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Love Copy Share Image
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fear Copy Share Image
A man does not please long when he has only species of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Doe Copy Share Image
Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Bears Copy Share Image
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Conceal Copy Share Image
Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Artifice Copy Share Image
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Desire Copy Share Image
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cheating Copy Share Image
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Enough Copy Share Image
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Health Copy Share Image
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Answer Copy Share Image
Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Envy Copy Share Image
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Jealousy Copy Share Image
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fault Copy Share Image
Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Conditions Copy Share Image
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Always Copy Share Image
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Calculation Copy Share Image
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Advice Copy Share Image
No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Love Copy Share Image
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Confined Copy Share Image
A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Folly Copy Share Image
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fortune Copy Share Image
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Accounts Copy Share Image
