Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Born: Sep 15, 1613
Died: Mar 17, 1680
Good Great Love Man More People
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love True Love Love Is Seen Few Everyone Ghosts About True Like Talks Which
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Disguise Become Others Ourselves End Accustomed Disguised In The End
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love Jealousy More Contains Self-Love Than
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love Friendship True Love True Friendship Rare True However Than May Less
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Care Mind Will Skin Danger Faults Out Has-Been Scar Wounds Taken Like Heal Still Been Left Up Behind After Breaking Again Bursting Them Body Imaginable Defects
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship True Friend Care Take True Blessings Greatest Least Friend Which Acquire
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Impossible Will Nothing Nothing Is Impossible Everything Say Ways Lead Had Merely Excuse Always Often Should Means Sufficient Things
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People Thought Long Ungrateful Find Seldom Them Serve
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Saying Great Words Great Deal Few Nothing Minds Great Minds Faculty Talent Talking Deal Much Lesser
The intellect is always fooled by the heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Heart Fooled Always Intellect
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good People Good Deeds Our Saw Would Frequently Motives Ashamed Them Produced Deeds
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great Relationship Fans Wind Increases Diminishes Great Ones Absence Fires Passions Candles Mediocre
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship Business Men Own Profit Sum Those Adjustment Mutual Steady Given Only Propose Simply Involved Arrangement Self-Love Interchange Which Social Interests Derive Services Received
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy Change Madness Passion Those Absolute Ceases Either Then Bred Turns Doubts Certainties
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Understanding Own Minds Beyond Anything Which Dismiss Mediocre
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great Management Enough Great Qualities Also Qualities Them Should
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love Good People Old Example Advice Bad Bad Example Give Inability Them Good Advice Old People Set
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good Man Old Example Advice Too Bad Bad Example Something Gives He Good Advice Set
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Veterans Day World Witness Before Valor Perfect Could Without Whole
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People Pleasant Some Various Like Buildings Personalities View
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Heart Mind Birthplace Remains Accent Speech
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Best Our Find Something Misfortunes Altogether Always Friends Us
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Peace Vain Ourselves Seek Outward Within Sources
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Reality Better Our Virtues Than Often Disguised Vices
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom Good People Criticism Few Would Praise Few People Deceives Prefer Them
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Own Others Our Pleasure Faults Those Take Had Much Should Noticing
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