Francois de La Rochefoucauld Famous Quotes
"If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others."
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
"Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty."
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it."
"Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak."
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
"To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established."
"Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples."
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The pleasure of love is in loving.
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
We always like those who admire us we do not always like those whom we admire.
"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person"
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
"We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotations
I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.
Miguel de Cervantes
"God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. Christ is 'in' us and we are 'in' Christ. Christ is loving people and reaching out to them through us. He is making His appeal through us. He is reconciling people to Himself through us"
Mark McGee
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
Honore de Balzac
"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."
Albert Camus
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles
Happiness hates the timid So does science
Eugene O Neill
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
Sam Ewig
"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time..."
Charles Dickens
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."
Earl Warren
"Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde