"The truly wise, Will only prize, Good manners,……" — Francois La Rochefoucauld

"The truly wise, Will only prize, Good manners, Sense and learning"

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

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48 Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld

Francois La Rochefoucauld has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes
A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just…
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail…
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or…
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we…
Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence…
The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the…
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from…
We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.

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