"Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to…" — Francois La Rochefoucauld
"Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work"
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48 Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
Francois La Rochefoucauld has 48 quotes on this site.
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes
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A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
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Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just…
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail…
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Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or…
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The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we…
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Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence…
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The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the…
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We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
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The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from…
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We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
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I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve…
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can…
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of…
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is…
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen…
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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your…
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
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