It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Enough Copy Share Image
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Blood Copy Share Image
Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Activity Copy Share Image
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ambition Copy Share Image
Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Death Copy Share Image
“Nothing prevents us being natural so much as the desire to appear so.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Appearance Copy Share Image
Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Flash Copy Share Image
“What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage… — François de La Rochefoucauld Character Copy Share Image
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Friendship Copy Share Image
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Failing Copy Share Image
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Action Copy Share Image
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ability Copy Share Image
We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Debt Copy Share Image
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Best friend Copy Share Image
A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Enough Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Contempt Copy Share Image
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Constancy Copy Share Image
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Currents Copy Share Image
There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Famous love Copy Share Image
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Funny Copy Share Image
There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Deceived Copy Share Image
Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fool Copy Share Image
Organize one's values in the order of their worth — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Goal Copy Share Image
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Clever Copy Share Image
