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All Quotes by author - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. "

" A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. "

" All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. "

" A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others. "

" A man's worth has its season, like fruit. "

" A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. "

" As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. "

" 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. "

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

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

" A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. "

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

" Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. "

" Conceit causes more conversation than wit. "

" Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. "

" Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. "

" Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment. "

" Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind. "

" Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. "

" Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. "

" Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. "

" Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. "

" Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. "

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

" Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. "

" Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. "

" Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. "

" Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. "

" He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it. "

" He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. "

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