François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Luck must be dealt with like health: enjoy it when it is good, be patient when it is bad.
François de La Rochefoucauld
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones.
François de La Rochefoucauld
No one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We should often be ashamed of our very best actions if the world only saw the motives which caused them.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes it is pleasant for a husband to have a jealous wife: he always hears what he loves being talked about.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We are often more treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
François de La Rochefoucauld
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
François de La Rochefoucauld
A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.
François de La Rochefoucauld