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Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Ability category:
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Ability category:
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Accomplishment category:
We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Activity category:
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Advice category:
One gives nothing so freely as advice. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Advice category:
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Confession category:
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Desire category:
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Disappointment category:
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Ego category:
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Emotion category:
The intellect is always fooled by the heart. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Fashion category:
He who always goes against the fashion is himself its slave. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Fear category:
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Friendship category:
It is more shameful to doubt one's friends than to be duped by them. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Gender category:
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Grace category:
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Gratitude category:
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favors. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Happiness category:
One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Hypocrisy category:
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Imitation category:
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Impossibilities category:
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)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Innocence category:
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Intellect category:
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Intellect category:
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Jealousy category:
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Love category:
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Love category:
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Mediocrity category:
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Motivation category:
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Passion category:
Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Pleasure category:
If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Possessions category:
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Silence category:
Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Solitude category:
It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Temperament category:
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Truth category:
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - From the Wisdom category:
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
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