Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Quote link. Other quotes about: friend: "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy: "Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think: "Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad old something man: "Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope: "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live think wise: "He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
Quote link.: "If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others."
Quote link.: "It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability."
Quote link.: "It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
Quote link.: "Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad people good: "Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples."
Quote link. Other quotes about: fear: "Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rule: "Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little mind: "Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men glory: "The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it."
Quote link.: "The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "The pleasure of love is in loving."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art perfect: "To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength: "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."
Quote link.: "We always like those who admire us we do not always like those whom we admire."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little people: "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think people good: "We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad never man good: "We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find: "When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good person: "Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person"

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