How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one’s being clever. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
It is not enough to have great qualities; we should also have the management of them. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. — Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI