François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.
François de La Rochefoucauld
There are people enough who despise money, but few who know how to bestow it.
François de La Rochefoucauld
There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.
François de La Rochefoucauld
If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.
François de La Rochefoucauld
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or feign it where it does not.
François de La Rochefoucauld
If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Hope and fear go arm in arm: there is no fear without hope, no hope without fear.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire to receive even greater benefits.
François de La Rochefoucauld
There is merit without attainment, but no attainment without some merit.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The accent of one's birthplace lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech.
François de La Rochefoucauld