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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes


Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

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.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.