Quotes by Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

French writer

Alive from: 1613-1680

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

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  As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

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  Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

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  A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

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  All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

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  Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

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  Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

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  Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

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  Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

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  Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

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  Few people know how to be old.

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  Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.

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  Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

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  Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

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  The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.